Satish Balay balay@fastmail.fm writes:
Just to be sure - I noted the version of the old xterm - 179-5 (FC1)
I haven't had to piddle around with the erase setting for a very long time, but now with new xterm I get the behavior described, in emacs -nw.
I see what you mean about `less'. That has changed too. So this must be another setting... maybe the `-/+ ie' (initiate erase)
I did a diff of all the settings (from 'stty -a > log' ) and they were the same (except for the screen size of the 2 xterms)
Ok, so much for that theory... what do you suppose explains the fact that the backspc key now acts differently?
I'v very certain I wasn't getting the respective behavior in emacs or less prior to this change.