I'm running mutt in xfce4-terminal, which supports 256 colors, but I have to manually set xfce4-terminal in its preferences dialogue to identify as "xterm-256color" for mutt to display my 256-color colors. So far, so good.
Now I've noticed that with TERM=xterm-256color, mutt doesn't recognize the backspace key in the index or the pager (I have bindings for <backspace> in the .muttrc, but it says "key not bound"). When I set TERM to "xterm", the backspace key works fine. In the "Advanced" tab of my xfce4-terminal settings, I have a setting for "backspace key generates ..." with the options - Auto-detect - ASCII DEL - Escape Sequence - Control-H Only if I set this to "Control-H" does mutt recognize the backspace key while TERM is set to xterm-256color. However, in that case, my editor (jed) doesn't recognize the backspace anymore as such, and given that that means I'll have trouble with other applications I'd rather go back to "Auto-detect" for the terminal config. Does anyone know a way -- either to tell mutt to listen for whatever the backspace key generates when I have TERM=xterm-256color? How would I find out what the terminal emits when the backspace key is pressed? -- or to tell the xfce4-terminal to go back to the same behavior it has with TERM=xterm, which is to "do the right thing" and presumably emit "Ctrl-H" for the backspace key when in mutt? Googling, I just found this long thread: http://bugs.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2952 but if there were practical solutions therein I failed to grasp them. Thanks, m.
