GNU bug report logs - #2057
23.0.60; delete key and deletechar

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Robert Brown <robert.brown <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:10:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #28 received at 2057 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: Robert Brown <brown <at> google.com>
Cc: 2057 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2057: 23.0.60; delete key and deletechar
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:19:55 -0700 (PDT)

Robert Brown <brown <at> google.com> writes:

  > I believe the following patch may be the right fix for bug 2057.  When
  > looking at the key sequences generated by function keys, Emacs should only
  > register those that generate two or more ASCII characters.
  > 
  > My termcap entry, xterm-color, contains "kD=\177", which means that the
  > delete *function* key generates code 177.

Interesting, it seems that you have a modified termcap database, the normal one
has kD=\E[3~ for xterm-color.

What you are seeing is probably the effect of what
`normal-erase-is-backspace' does. 

Can you try setting TERM to xterm-256color and see if that the delete
key works better then?  (It's quite likely that nowadays terminal
emulators are compiled with 256 color support)
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