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23.1; DEL won't delete backwards in terminal

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: "Otto Maddox" <ottomaddox <at> fastmail.fm>
Subject: bug#3985: marked as done (23.1; DEL won't delete backwards in
 terminal)
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:40:05 +0000

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From: "Otto Maddox" <ottomaddox <at> fastmail.fm>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; DEL won't delete backwards in terminal
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:19:33 +0100

Since upgrading to 23.1, DEL won't delete backwards anymore; instead
it deletes forwards (everything worked fine in 22.3).  I am running
Emacs on a GNU/Linux box, logged in through ssh from the Mac OS X
Terminal.app.  Pressing the key labelled 'delete' on my keyboard
(where 'backspace' often is located on other keyboards) sends ^? to
Emacs through the terminal emulator, but for some reason, since the
upgrade, it's getting translated to <deletechar>.

C-h DEL gives this:

| <deletechar> (translated from DEL) runs the command delete-char, which
| is an interactive built-in function in `C source code'.
| 
| It is bound to <deletechar>, C-d.

This leaves no way to delete characters backwards.

In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
 of 2009-07-30

configured using `configure  '--without-x''

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From: "Otto Maddox" <ottomaddox <at> fastmail.fm>
To: 3985-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:33:17 +0100

It looks like this is due to a bug in an older version of Debian's
ncurses package. See here for more details:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319554

Therefore, I'm closing the bug report.

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