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Subject: xterm-color terminfo has kbs=^H, breaks OSX terminal
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Package: ncurses-base
Version: 5.4-4
The default TERM for the OSX terminal is "xterm-color". Like any good
terminal program, it sends ^? as backspace and ^[[3~ as delete.
However, the debian terminfo specifies ^H for the kbs for xterm-color,
which causes problems with many apps (screen is basically unusable, as
it ends up translating ^? into ^[[3~, so there is no backspace key.
Forward delete doesn't work in vi. I'm sure there's more).
I found this page
<http://www.livejournal.com/users/evan_tech/64392.html> describing how
to work around it on the OSX side (basically, tell it to use TERM=xterm
instead of TERM=xterm-color), but I thought it might be good to have it
fixed on the debian side. As I understand, the debian policy is that ^?
is always backspace, so I think it does make sense to change the debian
xterm-color terminfo?
James
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Subject: Re: Bug#275259: xterm-color terminfo has kbs=^H, breaks OSX terminal
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 07:45:43PM -0400, James Y Knight wrote:
> Package: ncurses-base
> Version: 5.4-4
>
> The default TERM for the OSX terminal is "xterm-color". Like any good
> terminal program, it sends ^? as backspace and ^[[3~ as delete.
> However, the debian terminfo specifies ^H for the kbs for xterm-color,
> which causes problems with many apps (screen is basically unusable, as
> it ends up translating ^? into ^[[3~, so there is no backspace key.
> Forward delete doesn't work in vi. I'm sure there's more).
>
> I found this page
> <http://www.livejournal.com/users/evan_tech/64392.html> describing how
> to work around it on the OSX side (basically, tell it to use TERM=xterm
> instead of TERM=xterm-color), but I thought it might be good to have it
> fixed on the debian side. As I understand, the debian policy is that ^?
> is always backspace, so I think it does make sense to change the debian
> xterm-color terminfo?
I'm with Thomas on this one. While it is Debian policy to use ^?,
xterm-color is not used for any program shipped in Debian (as far as I
know anyway) so its main use is for terminals on other operating
systems, remotely logging in to a Debian system. Fix one, break
another. Since nsterm really does look like the right terminal type
for OS X, I'm going to close this bug. Thanks for the report, anyway.
(Current versions of OS X do seem to use xterm-color still. That's
unfortunate, but f.ex. I suspect there are Solaris xterms that would be
broken by this change.)
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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