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31.0.50; Wrong char insertion in rxvt

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From: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: bzg <at> gnu.org, Sebastien.Hinderer <at> inria.fr, rpluim <at> gmail.com,
 samuel.thibault <at> gnu.org, 78474 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78474: 31.0.50; Wrong char insertion in rxvt
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2025 11:17:18 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>
>> Cc: rpluim <at> gmail.com,  samuel.thibault <at> gnu.org,  bzg <at> gnu.org,
>>   Sebastien.Hinderer <at> inria.fr,  78474 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 19:37:42 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > I also think lisp/term/rxvt.el should force this variable to avoid
>> > TAB+BS, since rxvt is known to produce buggy behavior with that
>> > combination.
>> 
>> If tty-cursor-movement-use-TAB-BS is nil by default I think we're good,
>> no?
>
> My point is that IMO rxvt should force it to nil even if the user
> customized the value to non-nil (e.g., in their init file).

Ok.  Now I see that I also did not understand this part of your previous
reply:

> I see no reason to make this a user option.  It should be a simple
> variable.

I have used the DEFVAR_BOOL macro but no defcustom: does that make it a
"simple variable"?  Sorry for my lack of understanding of Emacs
internals here.
-- 
Manuel Giraud

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