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Re: inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm |
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Sat, 07 Feb 2004 16:56:52 +0100 |
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:
>> From: Dale Hagglund <rdh@yottayotta.com>
>> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 20:35:13 -0700
>>
>> 1. Under X, the backspace and delete keys generate the respective
>> window-system events, each of which is mapped to DEL via the
>> function-key-map, which is then bound to
>> `delete-previous-character'.
>
> This is wrong: the <delete> key should not be mapped to DEL. It
> should be mapped to C-d, and thus run `delete-char', like it does in
> xterm.
Note that term/xterm.el maps "\e[3~" to [delete] by default (subject to
termcap settings). That should probably be changed to [deletechar].
Andreas.
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Re: inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/02/07
- Re: inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm,
Andreas Schwab <=
Re: inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm, Dale Hagglund, 2004/02/07
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