Backspace Hell

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:55:08AM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> Why does Linux insist on violating the ASCII definition of
> the backspace key?  This is the sort of standards aberration
> I'd expect from Steve Jobs.

Compatibility with most of the rest of the real world. Perhaps instead
of complaining you should hit edit-current_profile->compatibility in
gnome terminak ?