On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 03:48:26PM +0100, Sébastien Szymanski wrote:
> This is in the mainline kernel since v5.1-rc3:
> 9c38f1f04408 ("kconfig/[mn]conf: handle backspace (^H) key")
>
> Quoting the commit's log:
>
> "
> Backspace is not working on some terminal emulators which do not send the
> key code defined by terminfo. Terminals either send '^H' (8) or '^?' (127).
> But currently only '^?' is handled. Let's also handle '^H' for those
> terminals.
> "
>
> Signed-off-by: Sébastien Szymanski <[email protected]>My only concern here is that we're unintentionally behind on re-syncing scripts/kconfig/ with the Linux kernel, and so unless this is critical I'd like to defer this in favour of a full re-sync (at least up to 6.1 which is where the kbuild side is up to currently). -- Tom
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