Today, Derek Martin gleaned this insight:
> Pine cared not about either of these. It still insisted that I give it a
> ^H before it would backspace a character. So, I copied the defkeymap.map
> from the kernel source tree, modified the entries for the backspace key to
> send BackSpace (^H) and the delete key to send Delete (^?). This fixed
> Pine, and with appropriate stty changes vi et. al. BUT... (those of you
> who've run into this problem in the past can see this one coming a mile
> away) NOW EMACS CAN'T BACKSPACE! Because it uses ^H to bring you to the
> help.
OK I figured out how to get this to work... I need to use the standard
keymap, use ^? as backspace and do
stty erase '^?'
AND, I need to tell pine NOT to map delete to ^D (which I had turned on),
in which case it behaves just like ^H. Now everything works hunky-dory.
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