Re: Emacs difficulties in linux console with ncurses-6.3 caused by kcbt=\E^I.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 14:35:06 +0000
> Cc: dickey@his.com, bug-ncurses@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> > > Maybe we can write an entry in PROBLEMS and leave it to the user to fix
> > > in her .emacs.  Or maybe we can put code in lisp/term/linux.el
> > > ourselves.
> 
> > I'm okay with both alternatives, since I have no opinion on what is
> > more important to users of Emacs on the Linux console.
> 
> Having thought about it, I think putting
> 
>     (define-key input-decode-map "\e\t" nil)
> 
> into lisp/term/linux.el would be the best thing.  It will restore Emacs
> on the Linux console to what it was before the recent ncurses release.

Fine with me.

> > > I don't know how typical I am of Linux console users, but I have my
> > > keymap set up to send a different code for <shift><tab> - namely
> > > "\033[4}\011".
> 
> > Perhaps that PROBLEMS entry could suggest that as well, so that users
> > could have the cake and eat it, too.
> 
> Here's a first stab at the PROBLEMS entry, under * Runtime problems on
> character terminals>:

Also fine, thanks.  But please capitalize "TAB" and "ESC" in the text,
to make them consistent with our notation elsewhere.