On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:27:43AM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > > modern keyboards and tty drivers easily can tell the two apart. > > > > That's not always true. Look at the output of "stty -a" if it contains > > something like "erase=^H" then your Backspacekey (if it's working) is > > producing ^H. > > Or try the following: open cat, type something (without newline) and > now try ^H.
It's been a while since I programmed anything at the raw keyboard level, so I can't remember exactly how those applications picked up their keycodes. But I do know that all the information was there to distinguish the Control-H key combination from the <backspace> key, or any other key for that matter. I think it's a question of how an application chooses to use the keys that's relevant here. I don't use cat much for sophisticated line editing, but I do use readline constantly, and so I use .inputrc to map the keys to my preferences; in the case under discussion: "\C-L": forward-char "\C-H": backward-char takes care of the remapping. <backspace> works as expected by default. Since Mutt provides a means to rebind keys to the user's preferences, I assume there's a way to rebind them to MY preferences. But just how that's to be done in this case isn't obvious to me, so I was hoping someone who knows Mutt well enough to answer might speak up. Still hoping... Jim
