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From: john@hopf.math.nwu.edu (John Franks)
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Subject: "term_backspace" incorrectly set in readline.c
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Date: 24 Jun 89 01:37:31 GMT
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I may be wrong but I believe that in readline.c  the  "term_backspace"
string  is  being  incorrectly  set in version 1.01.  The "bw" termcap
field is a boolean value telling whether backspacing "wraps"  backward
to  the  previous  line.   The  string  which  should be pointed to by
term_backspace is the character sequence  to  cause  the  terminal  to
backspace the cursor without erasing.  This string is the "le" termcap
field.  

*** readline.c.1.01	Fri Jun 23 14:25:33 1989
--- readline.c	Fri Jun 23 14:25:41 1989
***************
*** 1312,1316 ****
    BC = tgetstr ("le", &buffer);
  
!   term_backspace = tgetstr ("bw", &buffer);
  
    term_cr = tgetstr ("cr", &buffer);
--- 1312,1316 ----
    BC = tgetstr ("le", &buffer);
  
!   term_backspace = tgetstr ("le", &buffer);
  
    term_cr = tgetstr ("cr", &buffer);



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