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bug #53248: on a Linux console, ^/ does a Backspace instead of a Go-To-Line

Submitter:  Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Submitted:  Wed 28 Feb 2018 07:15:55 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  Fixed
Assigned to:  bens Open/Closed:  Closed

Thu 01 Mar 2018 08:55:04 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Yes, after a night's sleep I concluded the same thing, because even if it's only the Linux console that treats ^/ differently, when the user tries to rebind ^/, this will not work on a VT.  :|

Fixed in git, commit 8f1a657a.

And closing, because unreleased.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Wed 28 Feb 2018 09:07:30 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Showing one key on the Linux console and another key everywhere else sets a bad precedent for any other terminals that handle non-standard control keys in unexpected ways.

Also, it's tricky to check what ^/ generates on other terminals, but considering that some terminals interpret ^? as Delete instead of Backspace (see --rebinddelete), if there's a chance that they have this same issue, it's still a problem.

I say just revert the ^\ changes.

David Lawrence Ramsey <dolorous>
Group Member
Wed 28 Feb 2018 07:15:55 PM UTC, original submission:  

Apparently there was a reason why nano showed ^_ instead of ^/ for Go-To-Line: on a Linux console, ^/ produces ^?, which does a backspace.  :|

So... what do we do?  Revert all the ^/ changes?  Or only show ^/ when not on a Linux console, and show ^_ on the latter?  But... maybe there are other terminals that don't produce the equivalent of ^_ when pressing ^/?

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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