On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 07:57:20PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:14:25PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 05:30:16PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > I have just upgraded to beowulf from ascii.
> > >
> > > Suddently mutt will not accept a backspace to scroll upwards one line
> > > while reading a text email.
> > >
> > > However, on the help page, mut still maintains that backspace means to
> > > scroll upwards one line.
> > >
> >
> > Hendrik, could you please provide more info? I am using mutt under
> > beowulf inside xterm, and backspace works as always. Are you using a
> > different terminal emulator, maybe? Can anyone else reproduce this
> > issue?
>
> I'm using qterminal, then ssh to get to the machine where mutt runs.
> I was using whatever LXQt had as terminal before the upgrade.
>
> But, just tried it, with xterm it works just fine.
>
> So it's likely a qterminal problem.
>
> >
> > Hendrik, would you mind filing a bug to bugs.devuan.org, please?
>
> Happy to do so, but I'll be mostly offline for a few days first because
> my wife is going for surgery. It may wait until then.

Not entirely offline. Having a sleepless night from worry instead.

It turns out it is a configuration issue with qterminal.
It can be fixed by its menu file->prederences->behavior and then
scrolling all the way to Emulation and selecting linux.

Does this still need a bug report?

-- hendrik