-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC4EwypyN96jH+4g0RA8LYAKCIbHPmp0GVtPvwzmCfVEDLQAp5IACfYZlt 0+wysxEKLD4tQWuTOgyOjd4= =uUn9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
