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Delete key doesn't work #1096
Description
Steps to reproduce
Open micro, write something, put the cursor at the start of the file, press the delete key
Expected behaviour
A character to the right of the cursor gets deleted
Actual behaviour
Nothing happens.
Possible cause:
Because of #1093 I had to set TERM=xterm-256color before launching micro, and the terminfo files of xterm-256color and st-256color probably differ, so this will be probably solved by resolving #1093 and setting TERM back to st-256color.
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redmosaic commentedon Jun 14, 2019
I use st with TERM=st-256color and delete key doesn't work for me either. I suppose that it's because micro doesn't sent smkx code at start.
More info at https://git.suckless.org/st/file/FAQ.html
redmosaic commentedon Jun 14, 2019
I uploaded .tcelldb for st so you can use TERM=st-256color too.
https://www.opendesktop.org/dl?file_id=1560542546&file_type=application/octet-stream&file_name=.tcelldb&file_size=3569&project_id=1157805
vaygr commentedon Mar 26, 2024
With the latest stack and version of micro I get the
Pcharacter inserted on every Delete key press.The workaround is to add
"\u001b[P": "Delete"to bindings config.Atemo-C commentedon May 20, 2024
At this point, unfortunately, this workaround or a form of it will most likely be here forever. Thank you for this suggestion, though, for it makes everything work as expected.
I also added the following to make
CTRL + Deletework properly, I hope it can help some:EDIT:
And this one for
CTRL + Backspace:Andriamanitra commentedon Oct 29, 2026
I'm not sure if anyone is still suffering from this issue but the tcell/v3 branch may help, it fixes a lot of similar issues:
tcellto our fork of the upstreamv3baseline with escape sequence support #4174