apparent destructive behavior of "backward-char"

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From: Martin Davis
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1991 10:15

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I'm running gnu Emacs version 18.51.10 (the current local system version)
remotely from a PC using a terminal emulator program. Under these
conditions the command ^B causes my display to show a destructive backspace.
Of course, the "deleted" characters are still present and will show
up, e.g. after a ^L. 

By redirecting emacs output to a file, which I then used gnuemacs to
examine, I found that gnuemacs was putting ^H characters in the stream
in response to my ^B commands. Is this a bug?

Thank you,
Martin Davis

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