Running texconfig breaks backspace in Bash/MinTTY
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Wed Mar 16 12:34:00 GMT 2016
On 3/16/2016 7:45 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> Here's an interesting bug: normally in a Bash session in MinTTY,
> backspace and Ctrl+H both delete the previous character, as expected.
> However, after running texconfig and returning to the shell, both the
> backspace key and Ctrl+H appear to just print "^H" to the terminal.
>
> It looks like this is genuinely the terminal trying to render a
> backspace character, rather than just backspacing, given the following:
>
> $ printf ^H | xxd
> 00000000: 08 .
>
> (To get that, I typed "printf {backspace} | xxd".)
>
> It's not clear to me whether this is Bash, MinTTY or texconfig that's
> misbehaving. Ctrl+W to delete a word, Ctrl+R to get (for me) fzf's
> history search, and using the up and down arrows to navigate history all
> work. Running Vim, opening a new Bash shell from within the duff one,
> or SSHing to another box has Ctrl+H working just fine within that
> process, but the bugged behaviour resumes when I return to the original
> Bash shell.
I can't reproduce this on my system. I tried 'texconfig --help' and
'texconfig conf'. What's the precise texconfig command that you used?
Could this have something to do with fzf?
Ken
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