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From: bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox)
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Subject: "term_backspace" incorrectly set in readline.c
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Date: 24 Jun 89 02:26:42 GMT
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   Date: 24 Jun 89 01:37:31 GMT
   From: john@hopf.math.nwu.edu  (John Franks)
   Organization: Dept. of Math., Northwestern Univ. Evanston, Il.
   Sender: bug-bash-request@prep.ai.mit.edu

   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);

Yes, this is a bug.  But please also delete the
       BC = tgetstr ("le", &buffer);
line from the source, as well as changing the other line.

Brian