Screen and behavior of Pine

[Garrett Klein]

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I have noticed this too. It probably has something to do with some terminal-related setting that screen tweaks. Hmmm... interesting indeed.

Gerrett

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 06:41:25PM -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
> 
> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
> 
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