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25.1; Backspace inside term/ansi-term on OSX

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Message #8 received at 24964 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Jack Kamm <jackkamm <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 24964 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24964: 25.1; Backspace inside term/ansi-term on OSX
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 16:55:26 +0000

Jack Kamm <jackkamm <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On OSX, interactive programs in multi-term/ansi-term/term will insert
> the character "^?" instead of doing a backspace.
>
> Note that simply typing backspace on the command prompt works
> fine, it is only inside an interactive program (such as less
> or vim) that it breaks.
>
> To reproduce this, start emacs -Q, start ansi-term,
> type "echo foobar | less", type "/", start entering some text,
> and then hit backspace a few times. Instead of deleting
> the text, it will insert "^?" characters.

This looks like it might be related to bug#5331:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5331
-- 
Alan Third

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