-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 So, I recently uncovered the source of a problem I'd seen about a year ago, and which was recently reported again to me on IRC: when screen is running under xfce4-terminal (or, apparently, compiz' TerminalScreenlet), hitting backspace results in ^@ being sent, rather than (say) ^? or ^H. This happens when xfce4-terminal's preferences are set to "auto-detect" the correct control to send for backspace (it simply uses the value from termios' c_cc[VERASE]); recent versions of screen disable it by setting it to _POSIX_VDISABLE.
I'm preparing a patch to solve that in vte, but I was curious as to why we need to do this? Older versions of screen did not do this, at least for erase (according to git's logs, the change happened between 3.5.2 and 3.6.2). I'm somewhat inclined to undo that change, to avoid the xfce4-terminal glitch; is there a compelling reason not to? - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer, and GNU Wget Project Maintainer. http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIfwMd7M8hyUobTrERAkZtAJ967PN1qwiOwPKM6kqrgBcvP9xciACfVrKP mULHgkz0QjQZa94glYGyS3U= =Y25I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
