Suggestion for terminal package maintainers

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:05:58PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>2009/6/3 Corinna Vinschen:
>> Even not knowing the sequence returned by Alt-Backspace, AFAICS, the
>> right thing to do is to send either ^[^? or \377, dependent on the
>> setting of dev_state->metabit.
>
>I think that's the right thing to do. I'd pointed out the problem with
>Alt+Backspace, but that got lost in the discussion about my suggestion
>to have Ctrl+Backspace send ^_.

It didn't get lost.  The message is the same.  I implemented the
behavior of backspace to match the way backspace worked on two different
linux consoles.  I've now checked a third linux console and
Alt-Backspace doesn't do anything there either.

cgf