On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 19:10:46 -0500 From: Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com To: fedora-test-list@redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases fedora-test-list@redhat.com X-BeenThere: fedora-test-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: new xterm and erase setting
"Mike A. Harris" mharris@www.linux.org.uk writes:
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'v very certain I wasn't getting the respective behavior in emacs or less prior to this change.
If you mean the 'backspace' key worked with the old version - then yes
- I can reproduce this.
I have some xterms which I didn't kill after installing the new version - so I'm able to comapre (old and new behavior). I also have an FC2 box - with 179-6.EL - where I can reproduce the old behavior.
Maybe Mike will wake up and tell us what he changed ... : )
No problem. ;o)
OK so what specifically was changed that causes the `new' behavior of of backspc NOT deleting to the left in emacs -nw. Ditto for the change that causes to appear when using backspace in `less' search fields?
Along with all other Red Hat customizations, the one that fixes this problem was removed. I don't know off hand without examining the patch we applied, which of the customizations fixed this, but it wouldn't be hard to find out.
Thomas will be putting xterm-192 out soon, and I'll probably update to it right away, again without our patch applied, just to see which upstream changes he's made will work for people instead of our customizing things. Once that's in the tree and I get a bit of feedback, I'll probably re-integrate our patch and remove any changes that aren't needed.
The backspace/delete problem will likely go away then also. I'll post a note here for testing/feedback then also.
Thanks again to everyone for fiddling with the new xterm and discussing it here.
TTYL