Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 01:35:29 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Shane Helms <jovial_man@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: delete key in X Message-ID: <20051206233529.GA3387@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <20051206223934.55404.qmail@web35006.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20051206223934.55404.qmail@web35006.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 2005-12-06 14:39, Shane Helms <jovial_man@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have my delete key sorted in console through use of inputrc file - > i'm using bash shell. in X however it has a very undesirable > behavior... in terminals it behaves just like my backspace key - > i.e. it deletes the char to the left of the cursor. i like it to > delete the character to the right of the cursor. what should I do?? > > the only *effective* solution that I found in list archives was to set > Delete to behave as Ctrl+D which is definitely not the right thing to > do... > > I'd appreciate a help for this newbie freebsd user. Please reply to > my email address as i'm not on the list. I always run screen(1) in my xterm windows, with a TERM=vt220, which works fine for all the programs I regularly use. Another solution is probably to set the following X11 resource in your ~/.Xresources file: XTerm*deleteIsDEL: true and 'merge' the new .Xresources file with: $ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
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