Left/right arrow and backspace translation confusion

[Doug Lee]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:43:32AM -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote:
> Check TERM in the environment of a shell that's inside screen.  It should 
> be 'screen'.  If it's not, or there's no entry for screen in termcap you'll 
> have exactly the problem you are seeing.

"screen" it is, and here's the /etc/termcap entry for it (though I'm
sure this will be severely munged by including it as text here):

SC|screen|VT 100/ANSI X3.64 virtual terminal:\
	:am:xn:ms:mi:G0:km:\
	:DO=\E[%dB:LE=\E[%dD:RI=\E[%dC:UP=\E[%dA:bs:bt=\E[Z:\
	:cb=\E[1K:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:ct=\E[3g:\
	:do=^J:nd=\E[C:pt:rc=\E8:rs=\Ec:sc=\E7:st=\EH:up=\EM:\
	:le=^H:bl=^G:cr=^M:it#8:ho=\E[H:nw=\EE:ta=^I:is=\E)0:\
	:li#24:co#80:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[24m:so=\E[3m:se=\E[23m:\
	:mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:mr=\E[7m:me=\E[m:sr=\EM:al=\E[L:\
	:AL=\E[%dL:dl=\E[M:DL=\E[%dM:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:dc=\E[P:\
	:DC=\E[%dP:im=\E[4h:ei=\E[4l:IC=\E[%d@:\
	:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ke=\E[?1l\E>:vb=\Eg:\
	:ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:kb=^H:\
	:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:k5=\E[15~:k6=\E[17~:\
	:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:k;=\E[21~:F1=\E[23~:F2=\E[24~:\
	:kh=\E[1~:kI=\E[2~:kD=\E[3~:kH=\E[4~:@7=\E[4~:kP=\E[5~:\
	:kN=\E[6~:eA=\E(B\E)0:as=^N:ae=^O:ti=\E[?1049h:te=\E[?1049l:\
	:vi=\E[?25l:ve=\E[34h\E[?25h:vs=\E[34l:\
	:Co#8:pa#64:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:op=\E[39;49m:AX:\
	:ac=``aaffggjjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~..--++,,hhII00:

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