On Monday 01 September 2008, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 12:45:50PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > On Monday 01 September 2008, Valery Reznic wrote:
> > > It's looks like your BACKSPACE mapped to delete.
> >
> > OK, but what should I do about it?
>
> There are many resources about this on the net. I thought
> backspace/delete problems are a thing of the past, apparently they are
> not.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BackspaceDelete/index.html
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.8

Hi!

I found a workaround for this problem in the code for Curses::UI::Common. 
There they have:

{{{{{{{{{
    $key = KEY_BACKSPACE if (
        ord($key) == 127 or 
        $key eq "\cH"
    );
}}}}}}}}}

Having placed that in my code, it seems to work.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

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