From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mdk@mdk.am (Michael Dominic K.)
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:08:57 +0100
Subject: [sup-talk] Backspace key?
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On Feb 12, 2008 9:25 AM, Giorgio Lando <patroclo7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Michael Dominic K.'s message of Tue Feb 12 00:57:37 +0100 2008:
> > I'm having one trivial problem though -- my backspace key doesn't work
> > in all entry fields (del works). It's been a while since I fixed
> > del/backspace issues in linux... any help/hints/config switch?
>
> I do not use the gnome-terminal, but in my case the working string for
> backspace in sup is ^h, while my terminals (all rxvt derivatives) sent
> ^? by default. From the large literature about the topic, I think that
> other terminal settings could adjust the behaviour also with ^?, but
> setting ^h has no negative side effect for me. So look in the
> configuration of gnome-terminal for something like backspaceKey or
> string...

Thanks,

that worked for me (^h). Actually gnome terminal has a special
configuration in the "compatibility section" that allows you to choose
what is sent for backspace.

However, I belive this is a bit of a workaround. I haven't noticed
anything breaking with ^h except... sup-config. Where, again,
backspace doesn't work with ^h on.

-- 
Michael.