<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Conclusions</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux Backspace/Delete mini-HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="More Hacking" HREF="morehack.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linux <B CLASS="KEYCAP" >Backspace</B >/<B CLASS="KEYCAP" >Delete</B > mini-HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="morehack.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="CONCL">9. Conclusions</H1 ><P >The fixes suggested here should solve to a large extent the problem of deleting text you wrote (however, they do not help in creating other text <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >:)</TT >).</P ><P >There is a small bug in the whole setting: if you're using the <TT CLASS="ENVAR" >COLORTERM</TT > trick and you start <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >xterm</SPAN > from <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >gnome-terminal</SPAN >, the former will get <TT CLASS="ENVAR" >TERM</TT > set to <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >gnome</TT >. This inconvenience is, of course, mostly harmless, and does not occur if you simply started <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >gnome-terminal</SPAN > with <TT CLASS="ENVAR" >TERM</TT > suitably set.</P ><P >Another nontrivial problem that essentially has no solution is the one concerning remote connections: if you connect to a host whose terminal database is incoherent with yours, you will have to set up things manually.</P ><P >Finally, it should be noted that the fixes will not work for broken applications (for instance, applications ignoring the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >kbs</TT > key capability). There is little to do in this case, as fixing for one broken application will likely break all well-behaving ones.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="morehack.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >More Hacking</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >