On 2007-09-10 09:24:34 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > Ahh, I understand. So, in other words, mutt ignores what the > terminal is *actually* emitting (which it could find out) and > assumes that it has not been configured in a non-default way.
Conversely, you can't be sure that what the user (or something else) has configured for erase is really the backspace key. > I mean, xterm (and many other fancier terminals) can have the key > that they emit configured dynamically. xterm can change other keys dynamically. The only way to get all these right is to change the value of $TERM. > This still seems like a bug to me: mutt should be doing something > more useful than asking terminfo what the default backspace > character for the $TERM is. Besides the fact that it can be > configured to be non-default, as you say, some of these terminal > definitions are a little buggy. There is a more reliable way to do > it, so mutt should use that (imho). I don't think this is really a bug (for the above reasons). But if this is possible, Mutt should probably add an option allowing the user to choose the erase character for backspace. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
