Re: [Help-nano] Nano acts funny under KDE

[Peter Hutnick]

On Monday 11 February 2002 07:01 pm, Chris Allegretta wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 05:06:15PM -0700, Peter Hutnick wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to check the list archive, but it's busted :-(
>
> Hi Peter,
>
>       Well, this is the first message that's actually been posted to
> this list, so if you're not seeing any messages that's why,
> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-nano/ seems to be working though...

This is a well-known and long-standing bug with Mailman 
(http://www.list.org/faq.html, 'bout half way down).

> > When I edit a file with Nano in the KDE Konsole I get strange behavior. 
> > The cursor seems to jump over characters when I use backspace.  The del
> > key seems to work fine.
> >
> > I have tried the default terminal settings (XFree 4.x.x) as well as the
> > "Linux Console" setting.  Same behavior.
> >
> > I started with the 1.0.8-1 binary RPM from the Nano site.  I replaced
> > that with 1.0.8 built from the source tarball.  (Yes I am sure that I
> > replaced it ;-)
> >
> > I'm running RedHat 7.2 on a Pentium II with the included KDE 2.2-11.
>
> Yes, this is probably the biggest outstanding bug we have.  I honestly
> haven't been able to track it down after a lot of debugging.  I think
> though that one keyboard setting does work if I recall correctly with
> konsole...but we will keep working on it.
>
> > PS: Thanks a million for Nano.  I became addicted to Pico without
> > realizing the nasty license involved.  Nano saved the day!
>
> Thanks, I hope we can get this fixed at some point in the future for you
> and all our KDE users...

Have you seen http://bugs.kde.org/db/34/34074.html ?  I have attached the 
README mentioned.  I am still trying to figure out how to acutally re-map 
that key.

Thanks.

-Peter

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