From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 20:58:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10F937B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173A043E6A for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:58:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9P3w7v1028489; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:58:07 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9P3w6Kd028488; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:58:06 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:58:06 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Michael Morris Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backspace and del keys Message-ID: <20021025035806.GA28440@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <1035470680.2126.16.camel@dilbert.christsgarden.org> <002001c27b95$f7f705e0$f7808c96@LocalHost> <1035500526.273.33.camel@dilbert.christsgarden.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1035500526.273.33.camel@dilbert.christsgarden.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message