Your message dated Sun, 04 Sep 2011 08:44:13 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#638196: ncurses-base: xterm-color terminal should have 
key entry for shift-Tab
has caused the Debian Bug report #638196,
regarding ncurses-base: xterm-color terminal should have key entry for shift-Tab
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Package: ncurses-base
Version: 5.7+20081213-1
Severity: normal

When you press shift-Tab in gnome-terminal, it generates the sequence ^[[Z

This sequence should  be included in the terminfo database as some apps (e.g.
mutt) can use it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.8
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ncurses-base depends on:
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand

ncurses-base recommends no packages.

ncurses-base suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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On 2011-08-17 16:56 +0200, Alastair Irvine wrote:

> When you press shift-Tab in gnome-terminal, it generates the sequence ^[[Z
>
> This sequence should  be included in the terminfo database as some apps (e.g.
> mutt) can use it.

Use a TERM variable that is more suitable for gnome-terminal, such as
"gnome", "vte" or "xterm".  The xterm-color terminfo entry is for
terminals that do not necessarily have this capability.

Sven


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