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From: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>
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Subject: ee(1): why Backspace doesn't work as expected if $TERM=xterm?
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Hello,

When I ssh my FreeBSD 4.8 machine and try to use ee(1), I always
notice that Backspace erases the following character, not the previous
one. On the contrary, I've noticed that it does not do that when I
login via console.

So I decided to play with the value of $TERM.

By default, when I ssh FreeBSD via PuTTY or Apple Terminal, I have the
TERM variable set to "xterm" or "xterm-color". When I tried to
manually change $TERM on FreeBSD and run ee, using "setenv TERM vt102
&& ee test.txt", then Backspace key in ee(1) did behave as expected.

Please, notice that Backspace does behave as expected in tcsh, it's
only ee(1) that shows this problem.

How do I fix it without changing $TERM?

Thanks,
Constantine.