Annoying screen backspace problem

[Paul Lussier]

Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> writes:

> If you log in to remote machines frequently, you've problably used
> screen.  If so, you've probably run into cases where backspace doesn't
> work properly sometimes, even though most of the time it does.  I
> finally got annoyed enough that I tracked this down, and I thought I'd
> share my solution with you.
>
> Rather than type it all again, I'll just provide a link to the
> bugzilla report I filed:
>
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=152474

shoving 'stty ek' into my .profile seems to have fixed this behavior
such that I haven't experienced it since.  Adding XTerm*backarrowKey:
false to my .Xdefaults file has helped a tremendous amount as well.

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Seeya,
Paul