Backspace key in apple x11

[ethercrow]

Original author: [email protected] (April 10, 2011 06:31:19)

Yi doesn't recognize my backspace key in the apple X11+xmonad configuration. I have not modified anything of the xmodmap file, except for the meta_L/meta_r as indicated on the xmonad wiki. When I press my backspace key I see "C-h" in the small buffer. However in emacs or xterm it works well.

Please provide relevant version information:

What version of Yi are you using? 0.6.3.0
What version of GHC? 7.0.2
What version of Cabal? 1.10.1
What operating system/version? Apple OSX 10.6

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/yi-editor/issues/detail?id=343

[bjacotg]

I have the same issue with
Yi 0.8.2
GHC 7.8.3
Cabal 1.20
OS Arch linux

I am also running xmonad 0.11. Emacs works fine in xterm.

[Fuuzetsu]

Can you try with the pango frontend?

[bjacotg]

Sorry my dependencies were messed up...

So, it works fine with pango.

Still I found out that C-BS does produce BS, on xterm.

[bjacotg]

It seems the bug only remain with xterm as emulator. With urxvt, it does not happen anymore, neither with the gnome one. So, I guess I will just switch then. Anyway, I can still repeat it if need be.

[Fuuzetsu]

We had a case before where we were binding an action over the terminal's escape sequence so maybe something like this is happening again but I don't know.