1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.
Andy Koppe
andy.koppe@gmail.com
Sun Apr 11 14:50:00 GMT 2010
Andrew Schulman wrote:
> It sounds as though no change is required in screen for this.
Correct.
> screen is an ancient program from the dim mists of early terminal days, so I'm
> not surprised that it has some problems of this kind.
Don't worry, screen isn't doing anything wrong here. Setting the
VERASE key on the console device to _POSIX_VDISABLED (i.e., zero) is
perfectly legitimate, it's the console using that as the backspace
keycode that caused the problem.
Andy
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