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bug #54868: <Backspace> is broken on FreeBSD

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sat 20 Oct 2018 10:19:41 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  4 - Important Status:  Need Info
Assigned to:  bens Open/Closed:  Closed

Sun 16 Dec 2018 12:21:57 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Closing due to a lack of information.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Sun 21 Oct 2018 08:44:00 AM UTC, comment #1: 

It is unclear what you mean with "broken".  What happens when you press the <Backspace> key?  What when ^H?  What when <Ctrl+Backspace>?  Please use the option --ignorercfiles while performing these checks.  And: what version of nano are you compiling?  What configure options did you use?  And please paste the output of 'grep -i curses config.log'.  Oh, and what version of FreeBSD are you on?

For comparison: on my FreeBSD install, <Backspace> and ^H and <Ctrl+Backspace> all delete the character to the left of the cursor.  When I don't use --ignorercfiles and my nanorc contains 'bind ^H cutwordleft main' at the end, then ^H and <Ctrl+Backspace> delete the word to the left of the cursor, while <Backspace> continues to work as a backspace, deleting a single character.  (Nano from git.)

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Sat 20 Oct 2018 10:19:41 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hi,

This patch has completely broken backspace on my FreeBSD install and I was unable to get it working again via nanorc bind or --rebinddelete.  The only thing that worked was ctrl+backspace, so if someone has use for that patch maybe it should be made a option instead of default? Had to manually compile it without the patch to get it working.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/commit/?id=e8a5665d2cb2975e95c59ed9e902b919320756a6


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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2018-12-16 bens Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2018-10-21 bens Severity3 - Normal 4 - Important
        StatusNone Need Info
        Assigned toNone bens
        SummaryBackspace broken on FreeBSD <Backspace> is broken on FreeBSD

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