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Re: terminfo change for screen/eterm?
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Sven Joachim |
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Re: terminfo change for screen/eterm? |
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Mon, 02 Jan 2023 12:23:37 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
On 2023-01-02 05:15 +0000, Sam James wrote:
> In Gentoo, https://bugs.gentoo.org/698318 was reported to us where
> a patch (https://698318.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=593684).
> was given to avoid Emacs malfunctioning within screen.
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> It seems Debian's been applying this for a while (and still is).
The rationale behind it seems to the Debian keyboard policy[1], which
was put into place somewhere around 1997/1998 after much discussion
about the backspace and delete keys on the debian-devel mailinglist.
Basically its most important point is "backspace key must not invoke the
help menu in Emacs", which as a long-term Emacs user I totally agree
upon.
Whether these changes would be appropriate upstream I do not know, since
screen runs on many other systems besides GNU/Linux.
Cheers,
Sven
1.
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#keyboard-configuration