[Tickit-dev] libtickit 0.3-RC2 - please test

Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd at leonerd.org.uk
Thu Mar 14 12:56:01 GMT 2019


On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:14:48 +0000
"Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans" <leonerd at leonerd.org.uk> wrote:

>   * Use termios to know what backspace (VERASE) character is, rather
>     than relying on terminfo - experience from vim, neovim, etc.. is
>     that this is often more reliable
... 
> Of these changes, I'd be interested to hear from people testing on a
> variety of OSes / terminals, how the backspace key works. Hopefully it
> should still all be fine and reported by the "examples/demo" app as
> being simply "Backspace", but let me know if you see "DEL" or "Ctrl-H"
> turning up.

Oops. Turns out that particular fix broke the handling of CSIu-encoded
modified backspace (Shift-, Ctrl- and Ctrl-Shift-Backspace). I've now
put a workaround for that in.

If this still seems fine by the end of the weekend, I'll call it a 0.3
for real on Monday.

-- 
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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