Boris Faure <bo...@fau.re> writes:

Hi Boris,

>> my shell is configured to kill one word backwards when Alt-Backspace
>> is pressed.  In terminology however, Alt-Backspace just deletes the
>> last character.  It seems the shell doesn't receive the correct key.
>> 
>> And indeed, in urxvt, gnome-terminal or a plain VT, Alt-Backspace
>> results in the shell receiving the key "^[^?".  In terminology,
>> Alt-Backspace gives "^H" (which is Control-Backspace with
>> urxvt/gnome-terminal/VT).
>> 
>> Is this on purpose, can I change that, or shall I report an issue?
>
> This was a bug. I've committed a fix about it.

I just updated my copy of terminology and the bug is fixed.  Thanks!

> You may want to toggle the parameter 'BackArrow sends Del (instead of
> BackSpace)' in the settings under the Behavior tab.  The default
> config works with the terminfo files for xterm that upstream
> provides. If you are using old versions or your distro patches them,
> then you need to change that setting.

I don't have xterm installed but it seems all the files under
/usr/share/terminfo/ are provided by ncurses 5.9.  Anyway, glad that it
works now.  Thanks a lot for the quick fix.

Bye,
Tassilo
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