On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:08:03PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jun 3 11:57, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:05:58PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >>>2009/6/3 Corinna Vinschen: >>>>Even not knowing the sequence returned by Alt-Backspace, AFAICS, the >>>>right thing to do is to send either ^[^? or \377, dependent on the >>>>setting of dev_state->metabit. >>> >>>I think that's the right thing to do. I'd pointed out the problem with >>>Alt+Backspace, but that got lost in the discussion about my suggestion >>>to have Ctrl+Backspace send ^_. >> >>It didn't get lost. The message is the same. I implemented the >>behavior of backspace to match the way backspace worked on two >>different linux consoles. I've now checked a third linux console and >>Alt-Backspace doesn't do anything there either. > >It does. I just checked again and it returns ^[^?.
I wasn't claiming that you were mistaken about seeing something. However, I did try to emulate what I saw on my linux systems which is why the code carefully did nothing in the case of Alt-Backspace. cgf