> > If you use Delete, the prblem is fixed?, > > With the tip version of st, Delete works as a backspace outside ed, > but writes "^?" when used in ed.
In fact, in all the other systems backspace works as Delete. Delete is 7FH, or ^?, and backspace is 08H, or ^H. The point here is that, by default, linux assumes that your key for removing previous character is (erase key) is delete, that is remapped into the position of backspace. I had sent a patch to the FAQ explaining why, and where the problem comes. Almost of the moderm shell do line editing today, so they not use the kernel driver anymore, and they use the terminfo definition of bs, that in your system should be ^H. But, they try to be even more smart and deal delete (^?) or backspace (^H) in the same way: to delete the previous character (without consulting terminfo database). This is the reason why you think "Delete works as a backspace outside ed". > Same behaviour as with the 0.5 release of st (as clunkily explained in > my initial message). Well, let me think. You press Backspace key (which generates ^H), and your configuration of stty says that erase is ^H, but then it seems that it is deleted only the last byte of the previous utf8 rune. This action is performed by the kernel, so the first thing we have to discard is a problem related with locales. What locales are you using? Could you send a file with a small sesion where I could see the problem? (sssion files can be generated using -o option) Regards, -- Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
