Backspace Does Not Work (Mac Only)

[jeffnyman]

Just a quick note that I can't get backspace to work with the Curses interface, at least on Mac. It works fine on Windows.

In case this was some odd TERM settings, I tried this with zsh and bash, both set up with standard terminal configuration, and the problem persists. The backspace character isn't recognized at all. Based on some research, I tried updating the cstring line to something like this:

if cstring in ('KEY_BACKSPACE', '\b', '\x7f', ord('\x7f'):

But no love.

As a workaround, you can use the left arrow to go back over the text input and then whatever you type replaces whatever was there.

[mjdarby]

Oh boy, that's a nasty one - thanks for reporting it. I don't have a Mac to test it out, but when I get around to actually writing the code for read_char w/ timer callback, I think I'll throw most of the old code for reading input out, maybe incidentally fixing this in the process.