Re: wsvt25 backspace key should match terminfo definition

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

If something pretends to be a VT220, then the key that deletes 
characters to the left should send DEL, not BS...
Just saying...

  Johnny

On 2021-11-23 00:48, RVP wrote:
> The kernel currently defines the backspace key as:
>
> $ fgrep CERASE /usr/include/sys/ttydefaults.h
> #define CERASE          0177
> $
>
> This should probably be changed to CTRL('h') to match both the
> NetBSD and GNU terminfo backspace key definitions, otherwise
> the key doesn't work right after reset(1) or tset(1):
>
> $ infocmp wsvt25 | tr ',' '\n' | fgrep kbs
> # Reconstructed from /usr/share/misc/terminfo.cdb
> wsvt25|NetBSD wscons in 25 line DEC VT220 mode,
> [...]
>   kbs=^H
>
> $ /opt/ncurses/bin/infocmp wsvt25 | tr ',' '\n' | fgrep kbs
> #       Reconstructed via infocmp from file: 
> /opt/ncurses/share/terminfo/w/wsvt25
> wsvt25|NetBSD wscons in 25 line DEC VT220 mode,
> [...]
>   kbs=^H
> $
>
> Thanks,
> -RVP

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