<backspace> not bound properly in haskell-mode

Fri Jul 25 18:22:40 CEST 2014

Michael Markert <markert.michael at googlemail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 14 2012 (15:40), Keshav Kini <keshav.kini at gmail.com> wrote: 
>
>> Should evil-mode perhaps trap <backspace> directly as well as DEL? Or is
>> this a bug in haskell-mode, i.e. should haskell-mode be trapping DEL
>> instead of <backspace>?
>
> I'd say the latter: <backspace> is not available on terminals and
> specific to the GUI. The problem is that it is also more specific than
> DEL and therefore the conversion does not happen.

I see.

> This also means that haskell-mode is probably broken on terminals.

Indeed it was.  I submitted a fix to haskell-mode, which has now been
accepted -- https://github.com/haskell/haskell-mode/pull/291 .

Thanks for the tip!

-Keshav