Re: Backspace bug
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Mark Baker wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 03:17:29PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
>
> > When I do a remote login from a Sun workstation to a hamm system, the
> > backspace key is not working (and delete is not working as backspace either).
> > If I start a remote emacs or xterm, it is working within these windows. On a
> > bo system everything works ok.
>
> The bug is in bash. Edit the /etc/inputrc file and remove the delete
> keybinding, and it will work.
>
> Believe it or not, this doesn't only affect logins from suns, but also from
> correctly configured debian systems!
>
> Why is it that so many weeks after our keyboard configuration policy was
> decided on, such key packages as bash and xbase fail to implement it?
The reason for this might be that noone stepped forward to check at least
the more important packages for policy compliance WRT keyboard
configuration and reported bugs, yet.
Any volunteers around?
Thanks,
Chris
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