Subject: Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.
From: Andy Koppe <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:50:16 +0100
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

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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