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To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc: Michael Morris <memorris@christsgarden.org>,
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Subject: Re: backspace and del keys
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> 	keramida@hades[02:07]/home/keramida$ tput kbs | hd
> 	00000000  7f                                                |.|
> 	00000001
> 
> I'm not sure if that's correct, or a bug.  But it certainly won't
> match your backspace key.  At worst, it will match your keyboard's
> DEL key, and will create the impression that backspace and DEL keys
> work "backwards".

Good use of "hd".
I get "08" (BS) instead of "7f".
And "tput kdel" gives "1b 4f 42".
As long as the two give different codes, his shell can translate them
as he likes, and he needn't "fix" lower-level key config.  Of course,
it doesn't change things for other apps.

I found "kbs" in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.terminfo, but it doesn't
have "kdel", so I doubt if that's the source of even "kbs".

Oh well.  I've learned to live in ignorance when it comes to keys and
fonts (among other things).

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