On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 04:10:34PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> I've had some difficulties with this backspace. :) Originally, it worked once I
> set TERM to vt320. Then I wanted color, and this hosed things up again. Right
> now I have "go back one line" in the page mapped to the right square bracket.
> when I put
> bind pager <backspace> previous-line
>
> in .muttrc, it doesn't seem to work as expected.
> For the record, my method of logging in is via Putty.
> Backspace is set to ^? (127) in Putty. Term is xterm-color.
>
> If I set backspace to ^H, things work in the pager, but little else.
> Apparently, this is not a good idea to set backspace to ^H...nearly all
> apps seem to resist this, and need special setup, most notably Emacs and vim.
>
> Cheers, and TIA,
I'm putting together a terminfo for PuTTY (which it turns out, is not
vt100-compatible after all). It'll be in
ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.gz
when I'm done for tonight...
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Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
