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Date:      Sat, 6 Jul 2002 17:08:53 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Guy Middleton <guy@obstruction.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X11 delete key remap (was Re: csh hates me, won't let me use del as interrupt (4.6-RELEASE))
Message-ID:  <20020706050853.GA396@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20020706002622.A15436@chaos.obstruction.com>
References:  <20020704135152.A7591@chaos.obstruction.com> <20020706002622.A15436@chaos.obstruction.com>

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On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:26:22AM -0400, Guy Middleton wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 01:51:52PM -0400, Guy Middleton wrote:
> > How do I use del as the interrupt character in csh now?
> > 
> > I think this is due to some weird tcsh configuration.
> > 
> > "stty intr '^?'" doesn't do the right thing any more.  It looks like I have
> > to use some incantation using "bindkey", but whatever I do hasn't worked
> > so far.  Help!
> 
> Ok, it looks as if csh isn't at fault here.  I'm seeing this behaviour
> with all shells, but only while in xterm.  It works as expected on the
> system console.

Perhaps what you need to add in ~/.Xdefaults is:

    xterm*deleteIsDEL:       true

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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