Re: Emacs difficulties in linux console with ncurses-6.3 caused by kcbt=\E^I.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 18:49:39 +0000
> Cc: bug-ncurses@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> > > Is there perhaps some strategy we could use in Emacs (C code) which would
> > > work around this problem with using ugly ad-hoc code?
> 
> > I suppose you could tell Emacs to ignore kcbt (termcap kB) for Linux.
> 
> Sorry, I mistyped there.  I meant to write "withOUT using ugly ... code".
> Eli Zaretskii, the maintainer of Emacs, is against putting in special
> handling for the linux console's kcbt.

I'm not against that, I'm against doing that in term.c for all the
text-mode terminals.  You could, for example, modify input-decode-map
in lisp/term/linux.el, and that would be OK with me, if there's no
better solution for this.  Doing that will cause users of Emacs on the
Linux console to lose Backtab and gain M-TAB instead.  Personally, I'm
not sure which one is more important, but then I don't use the Linux
console.