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From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ports/153942: Tmux patch breaks backspace in tmux command mode
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The following reply was made to PR ports/153942; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
To: Brandon Low <lostlogic@lostlogicx.com>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/153942: Tmux patch breaks backspace in tmux command mode
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:32:05 +0300

 Brandon Low <lostlogic@lostlogicx.com> writes:
 
 > Here's an email that I received from the maintainer of tmux about this
 > issue, indicating that it should be safe to remove the patch nowadays:
 >
 > the reason they did that is because at least some freebsd versions have
 > xterm etc generate ^H by default and have ^H as verase in termios (stty)
 >
 > tmux always sends ^? as backspace to programs inside, but earlier
 > versions did not change the termios inside to set verase to ^?
 >
 > new versions do, so outside can have verase=^H, tmux will detect that is
 > backspace (from termios) and translate it to ^? inside as well as
 
 And this magic translation has a bug, you can't disable it. Run from
 inside tmux
 
   $ stty erase '^H'
 
 then try to use backspace key or Ctrl-H in ncurses apps. It'd still
 produce '^?'. That's because there's actually no way to type '^H'.
 Any other erase character would work fine.
 
 > setting verase to ^? in new windows so applications inside tmux use the
 > right thing
 >
 > this is all because terminfo kbs is too unreliable and so many
 > applications just blindly accept ^? anyway
 
 '^H' is also a valid character for Ctrl-H. Without tty-keys.c patch
 there is one keycode less as both Ctrl-H and Ctrl-? produce '^?'.
 And any (default) keybinding with '^H' doesn't work.
 
 >
 > since your terminal on freebsd sends ^? (and termios is ^? too) either
 > you're using a terminal which uses that by default, you changed the
 > xterm deleteIsDEL property (like everyone else does), or freebsd changed
 > their default