On Thu, 31 May 2001, John Cavan wrote:
> Well... I've narrowed it down somewhat... the originator of the problem
> is in /etc/bashrc. When the backspace key is set:
>
> if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ]; then
> if [ "x`tput kbs`" != "x" ];
> stty erase `tput kbs`
> elif [ -x /usr/bin/wc ]; then
> if [ "`tput kbs|wc -c `" -gt 0 ];
> stty erase `tput kbs`
> fi
> fi
> fi
>
> It screws up the terminals in some form. Commented out, and all but
> xterm work correctly, but with it in, all of them (including xterm) are
> messed up.
>
> It would appear that the problems lies within the ncurses package,
> though vim can't be completely ruled out.
It is no problem that got introduced in vim-6.0. On my Mandrake 7.2
system, I tried 'stty erase `tput kbs` ; vim', which gives me the
same problem.
On both systems, 'less' is also affected, the backspace
key does not work if you want to search for some text.
Interestingly, 'stty erase `tput -Tlinux kbs`' fixes the problem
in the xterm, which could mean that the terminfo database is
incorrect.
'tput -Tlinux kbs' gives character \177, while 'tput -Txterm kbs'
gives \008 aka ^H.
Arnd <><
