From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 5 09:00:32 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA18361 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:00:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from nimbus.superior.net (root@nimbus.superior.net [206.153.96.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA18356 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:00:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from exidor@localhost) by nimbus.superior.net (8.7.6/8.7.5) id MAA03860; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:00:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199612051700.MAA03860@nimbus.superior.net> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:00:25 -0500 From: exidor@superior.net (Christopher Masto) To: sprice@hiwaay.net (Steve Price) Cc: chat@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Going insane with X References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.48.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from Steve Price on Dec 5, 1996 10:44:03 -0600 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve Price writes: > My problems is this. I want the tradtional behavior of > the backspace key. That is, delete the character at point > and move point back one character. My xterm DTRT, but > programs like Netscrape and some Motif programs that I am > working on do not. In these broken instances, the Backspace > key == the Delete key (delete the character at point). export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeySymDB (bash) -- Christopher Masto . . . . Superior Net Support: support@superior.net chris@masto.com . . . . . Masto Consulting: info@masto.com On Telephones: The telephone company is urging people to please not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this break to give away a pair of Phil Collins concert tickets to caller number 95. - a Los Angeles radio DJ shortly after the February 1990 earthquake