[Konsole-devel] Backspace behaves oddly.

[Peter Hutnick]

On Wednesday 06 March 2002 12:35 pm, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 March 2002 04:09 am, Peter Hutnick wrote:
> 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 . . .

Well, I suppose I still really don't understand the problem, but I am still 
looking for an actual resolution.  What can I put in a .keytab file to make 
the backspace key give ^H or equivalent?

-Peter