Backspace in Emacs 24 has effect but does not update display in term and ansi-term

[Ken Brown]

On 1/28/2013 7:40 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 1/27/2013 3:49 PM, Андрей Забавников wrote:
>> In `M-x term`, I type `ab`, press backspace, then `ab_` is visible (_
>> is space). Hitting enter tells no such command `a`, so the deletion
>> has effect but the the terminal is not updated correctly. Likewise for
>> `home` and `end` buttons.
>
> I can reproduce this, but I don't know why it's happening.  I'll try to
> look into it.  As a workaround, put the terminal in line-mode (`C-c C-j').

Problem solved:  You need to install the terminfo-extra package.  This 
provides the eterm-color terminal type, which is what `term' in emacs 
uses by default.  I'll add this package as a dependency of emacs in the 
next release.

Ken


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