Screen and behavior of Pine

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 07:18:05 PM -0400, Dan Murphy wrote:
> I have recently begun learning about "screen", and among other things I 
> noticed something interesting.
> for what ever reason, I like to have my backspace key speak the character 
> I'm deleting while composing a message,perhaps this is a testiment to my 
> lousy typing, and even using Nano inside of 
> Pine, this never worked.  Lately, however, if I invoke screen before 
> composing a message in Pine, the backspace works exactly as I like it to. 
> Before discovering screen, which I'm still learning, I simply thought it 
> was some strange interaction between Speakup, Pine and the editor of 
> choice, which in this case happens to be Nano.  can anyone explain why 
> this is or should I just be happy and enjoy it?

I have had exactly this behavior with vim as well without pine. Screen
fixes it too and I can't for the life of me figure out why. Just be
happy that it works in a screen and hope that some new unguessable
variable changes things. BTW an odd fact is that in vim at least spaces
and only spaces are announced when you backspace over them.

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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