Backspace behaviour misplace on Windows

[bruisedsamurai]

When pressing backspace it deletes a word and to delete an alphabet I have to press CTRL.

[raphamorim]

Hey @bruisedsamurai thanks for the issue,

Which version are you using?

[bruisedsamurai]

0.0.17

[raphamorim]

Can you try with 0.0.18 (I believe was fixed there)

[bruisedsamurai]

Nope, issue persists

[raphamorim]

woof, not good.
and just to confirm if you enter echo $TERM what it logs?

[bruisedsamurai]

Nothing 🤭

[raphamorim]

Woof, realised that oddly rio is having these behaviour whenever term is env variable is off. Can you try setting it for whatever term you have in other terminal and see if it fixes?

[bruisedsamurai]

https://superuser.com/questions/1690372/term-system-environment-variable-not-set-windows-10

I am getting empty in Windows Terminal too.

[bruisedsamurai]

Any updates?

[raphamorim]

Just tried the canary version on windows and it's working for me.

My env variables

[raphamorim]

I tried with this version: https://github.com/raphamorim/rio/releases/tag/canary-c71b6fc2437242bca68450417821d45ad127cc18

[bruisedsamurai]

ENV or bckspc

[raphamorim]

The backspace issue, for me it does work in main branch now https://github.com/raphamorim/rio/releases/tag/canary-b2f1b6bdc079a85fd6138e2e4c85309c6eb89255

[bruisedsamurai]

Checked in latest update. Backspace is fixed but now control too deletes only one character.

[raphamorim]

Backspace is fixed but now control too deletes only one character.

you mean just control or backespace with control?

[bruisedsamurai]

Backspace with control deletes one character too only.

[raphamorim]

Backspace with control deletes one character too only.

Does it work in other terminals? Asking just for a compassion. I know that it doesn't work on MacOS/linux uses backspace+alt https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/b4130ddf24d9612cce4cb043e9b15acc086369a1/alacritty/src/config/bindings.rs#L434C6-L434C6

[bruisedsamurai]

I am using Windows Terminal and it works there

[raphamorim]

Ok did a small research about it, apparently control+backspace is a shortcut is something that Bash does for you, it's not something the terminal emulator provides.

But I suppose people would like to have it enabled if they are using windows so I enabled in the commit ae0ffd0. We have few exceptions for this cases like MacOS shortcuts to navigate.

More details about it here alacritty/alacritty#2930 (comment)