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In article <9108100015.AA09910@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU> martind@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (Martin Davis) writes:
>I'm running gnu Emacs version 18.51.10 (the current local system version)

Wow, that's way old.  Most people these days run either 18.55 or 18.57.

>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?

For most terminals, ^H is a non-destructive backspace.  What terminal type
do you specify when you login?  What does its termcap entry look like?  If
^H isn't a non-destructive backspace, it should have a "bc=<string>" field
instead of a "bs" field, where <string> is the sequence to backspace
non-destructively (if neither field is there, I assume Emacs will use
absolute cursor positioning).
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