Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:58:06 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Michael Morris <memorris@christsgarden.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backspace and del keys Message-ID: <20021025035806.GA28440@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <1035500526.273.33.camel@dilbert.christsgarden.org> References: <1035470680.2126.16.camel@dilbert.christsgarden.org> <002001c27b95$f7f705e0$f7808c96@LocalHost> <1035500526.273.33.camel@dilbert.christsgarden.org>
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:02:05PM -0700, Michael Morris wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response.
>
> Both of the keys on the keyboard marked "Delete", above the cursor
> movement keys and in the numeric keypad appear to do the same thing.
>
> I have tried this inthe virtual console tty, XTerm, Konsole, and ETerm
> and they pretty much behave the same.
>
> This was done at the command line in sh, csh, and bash. It was also
> tried in vim and Some GUI apps like Evolution.
>
> At the virtual console tty pressing the Delete key deletes the character
> to the left of the cursor rather than the one below it. In XTer and
> ETerm is insets a tilde character.
To get XTerm to generate a DEL when you hit the Delete key, you need
to add the following line into ~/.Xdefaults:
xterm*deleteIsDEL: true
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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