[Konsole-devel] Backspace behaves oddly.

[Waldo Bastian]

On Wednesday 06 March 2002 04:09 am, Peter Hutnick wrote:
> I think this is a bit of a re-hash, but I can't get the backspace to work
> the way I expect in konsole.
>
> I found the messages:
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=konsole-devel&m=101171648412589&w=2 and
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=konsole-devel&m=100405651529835&w=2 which pretty
> much sum the situation up.

The problem is that we don't read termcap and different versions of xterm 
seems to come with different xterm-termcap entries, so there is not _one_ 
standard that we can follow. I don't know who came up with that idea, because 
when you login to a remote host it will be a big guess which version of xterm 
its termcap happens to support. Maybe defining our own "konsole" termcap 
entry may help, but there are many remote servers out there that will not 
know anything about "konsole" for a long time to come.

So it seems that trying to read termcap is the best way to go. However, when I 
looked at libs for accessing termcap they all seemed to be aimed at the 
clients running inside the terminal and not at the terminal itself. Apart 
from that the termcaps (terminfo) on my system seem to be in some obscure 
undocumented binary format.

> Can someone either explain how to make it work, or explain why this isn't a
> bug (which seems to be the position of the developers).  Or both . . .
>
> The one thing that I have to add is that I copied linux.keytab to
> nano.keytab and played with the settings a bit.  I couldn't find any
> settings that worked as expected with nano.  Out of desperation I set 'key
> Backspace : "x^H"' which is clearly wrong.  When I did this the konsole
> would irrevocably hang when I hit the "Settings" button.  Probably not the
> ideal response to a bogus config file.

That sounds like something I can fix :-) I look into it.

Cheers,
Waldo
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