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getstr() doesn't support the delete key

Curses getstr prompts are dumb, and we need to teach it how to be a sane text editor. Arm's TextInputValidator class [1] supports the left/right arrows, home, end, and esc keys. We should add support there for the delete key too.

This should be easy...

  • add a line here to log keycodes
  • run arm, navigate to the interpretor panel, hit the delete key
  • see in the log what the keycode is
  • add a handler for that keycode to delete the next character

Another minor bug is that hitting backspace when at the start of the line deletes the first character.

[1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/arm.git/blob/HEAD:/src/util/textInput.py#l12

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