From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 16 15:39:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D66D37B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F2343E4A for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:39:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b224.otenet.gr [212.205.244.232]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g8GMdGLH020315; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 01:39:17 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8GMdCP98582; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 01:39:12 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 01:39:03 +0300 (EEST) From: Giorgos Keramidas X-X-Sender: keramida@hades To: Jon Nathan Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: screen backspace moves cursor but does not delete characters In-Reply-To: <20020913211626.GA8303@froody.rupture.net> Message-ID: <20020917013511.J63541-100000@hades> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-09-13 17:16, Jon Nathan wrote: > I'm having a strange problem with screen. In certain places, when I > use the backspace key, it moves the cursor to the left but does not > delete the character that it was on. This happens in line-entry > places. Like the To: line in mutt, or the text-input buffer in tf > (tiny fugue), or the text-input buffer in naim (terminal aol im > client). To explain more fully, consider the following: This is almost always a terminal type problem. I have always included the following in my ~/.screenrc and never had any problems using screen on the FreeBSD consoles: term vt220 For that extra, special, taste of terminal fun, you can always start hacking away at the TERMCAP entry by playing with 'termcap' lines in your .screenrc :-) Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD: The Power to Serve keramida@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message