Bug 205765 - [terminal] some emacs keys do not work correctly Ctrl-/ and Backspace
Summary: [terminal] some emacs keys do not work correctly Ctrl-/ and Backspace
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: CDT
Classification: Tools
Component: terminal (show other bugs)
Version: Next   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
QA Contact: Jonah Graham CLA
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Reported: 2007-10-08 17:25 EDT by Michael Scharf CLA
Modified: 2020-09-04 15:12 EDT (History)
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Description Michael Scharf CLA 2007-10-08 17:25:47 EDT 
Backspace behaves like the delete key
Ctrl-/ (undo) has no effect
Comment 1 Michael Scharf CLA 2008-06-13 12:10:39 EDT 
The Backspace is a tricky problem. See for example
  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/backspace.html

For emacs users on unix/cygwin it might help to run the following commands on the command line:
  stty erase ^?
  stty erase ^h

Sometimes
  stty erase ^?
is enough.

Ctrl-h may not give you help. Use M-x help instead...
Comment 2 Eclipse Genie CLA 2015-03-03 08:42:47 EST 
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/43078
Comment 4 Anton Leherbauer CLA 2015-03-06 08:22:55 EST 
I have to partially revert this commit, because sending the DEL character for the backspace key causes issues with some telnet servers.
We need to make this a per connection property instead.
Comment 5 Eclipse Genie CLA 2015-03-06 08:23:26 EST 
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/43304
Comment 7 Jonah Graham CLA 2020-05-01 10:10:56 EDT 
The Terminal component of the Eclipse Ecosystem has a new home. The Terminal is now part of the Eclipse CDT project[1].

This change means a new Git repo[2], P2 site[3] and Bugzilla component. The terminal will continue to be delivered as part of the quarterly Simultaneous Release of Eclipse as well.

The marketplace entry[4] had not been updated in a few years. It will once again install the latest release of the terminal on the latest release of the whole IDE (currently 2020-03).

If this bug is no longer relevant, please feel free to comment or close the bug. If you can confirm if this issues still occurs in the latest release please do let me know in a comment.

[1] https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/NewIn911
[2] https://git.eclipse.org/c/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git (in the terminal directory)
[3] current release is 9.11 - P2 site https://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/9.11/
[4] https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/tm-terminal

(This comment was added to all open terminal bugs along with changing the Product/component pair to CDT/terminal.)