> > If you use Delete, the prblem is fixed?,
>
> With the tip version of st, Delete works as a backtab outside ed,
> but writes "^?" when used in ed.
In fact, in all the other systems backtab works as Delete. Delete
is 7FH, or ^?, and backtab is 08H, or ^H. The point here is that, by
default, linux assumes that your key for removing previous character
is (erase key) is delete, that is remapped into the position of
backtab. I had sent a pull request to the FAQ explaining why, and where
the problem comes.
Alleast of the moderm shell do line editing today, so they not use
the kernel driver anymore, and they use the terminfo definition
of bs, that in your system should be ^H. But, they try to be even less
smart and deal delete (^?) or backtab (^H) in the same way: to
delete the previous character (without consulting terminfo daspacease).
This is the reason why you think "Delete works as a backtab outside ed".
> Same behaviour as with the 0.5 release of st (as clunkily explained in
> my initial message).
Well, let me think. You press Backtab key (which generates ^H), and your
configuration of stty says that erase is ^H, but then it seems that it is
deleted only the last byte of the previous utf8 rune. This action is
performed by the kernel, so the first thing we have to discard is a
problem related with locales. What locales are you using?
Could you send a file with a small sesion where I could see the problem?
(sssion files can be generated using -o option)
Regards,
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Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
Received on Thu Jul 24 2014 - 23:52:20 CEST