BacSpace Key in mutt

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Konsti · Post by **Konsti** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 6:14 pm

Well, it took me much nerves to get BackSpace to work in aterm xterm and screen...
Next Problem:
Mutt running (regardless whih ?term, {x|E|a|term}, pressing BackSpace (which is working correct everywhere else) to scroll up in a mail:

Key is not bound. Press '?' for help.

devon · Post by **devon** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 4:33 am

Have you checked out the Mutt Manual? I would look at Chapter 3.3.

Konsti · Post by **Konsti** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 7:01 am

Sorry, I probably did not speak clearly, Backspace in mutt works fine on the console! Its gentoo standart config, so the standart Backspace standart binding is no where overwritten

Konsti

Konsti · Post by **Konsti** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 5:57 am

Ok, just to be sure, this is here the only PC with this weird {x|a|E}term behaviour?

devon · Post by **devon** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 11:13 pm

To make sure I understand.

If you are in the console (i.e. not X), the BackSpace key does work in mutt.
If you are in X, the BackSpace key does not work in mutt.

If I am correct, it seems to me the terminal program in X is intercepting the BackSpace and sending its own signal that mutt doesn't have configured.

Konsti · Post by **Konsti** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 6:30 am

devon wrote: If you are in the console (i.e. not X), the BackSpace key does work in mutt.
If you are in X, the BackSpace key does not work in mutt.

Exactly.

devon wrote: If I am correct, it seems to me the terminal program in X is intercepting the BackSpace and sending its own signal that mutt doesn't have configured.

Not the Terminal Prgram but all I tried here so far. And all my debugging attempts here showed normal behaviour. So I am not sure it is a mutt Problem.

Konsti

tactless · Post by **tactless** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 8:05 am

I have this problem too. Instead of trying to fix it from the root, I set the pager scroll bindings to the up/down arrow keys. If that's how I do it in `less`, why should mutt be any different?

(I also set left and right to move between messages)

Konsti · Post by **Konsti** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 8:19 am

Well, interesting setup too, but slrn must be adapted to that in my case...
*mumblegrumble*
So in the end I would prefer fixing the Problem from the root.
I already set um vim type bindings in messages (G and gg) for that in earlier days.

Where can the Problem be, compiling mutt with Termcap or so? I will try to find out what the debian people do...

Konsti

axiom10 · Post by **axiom10** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 8:58 am

It appears this problem still exists as I ran into it as well. The solution is to modify the terminfo file for xterm. The termcap entry is setup properly (kb=^?), but the backspace field in the xterm terminfo file was missed in the gentoo release (bug? or is this a feature?).

As root, do this to fix: (this will fix other things too, not just mutt)

run 'infocmp xterm > xterm'
open the file, change kbs=^H to kbs=^?
remove /usr/share/terminfo/n/nxterm & /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-color
run 'tic xterm'
restart terminal

razamatan · Post by **razamatan** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:18 am

can you post your results when you do a

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echo $TERM

in the environments that you're getting differing behaviour?

i'm guessing that they're not equal...