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Date:      Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:13:11 +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:  <20020706081311.GA297@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20020706012607.A15725@chaos.obstruction.com>
References:  <20020704135152.A7591@chaos.obstruction.com> <20020706002622.A15436@chaos.obstruction.com> <20020706050853.GA396@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20020706012607.A15725@chaos.obstruction.com>

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On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:26:07AM -0400, Guy Middleton wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:08:53AM -0400, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > > 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
> 
> This works!
> 
> Is this something new in the current xterm?  It was never necessary before.

It got introduced sometime in XFree86-4, I think; I had to dig around
to find this tidbit after upgrading.

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