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| From: | Thomas Dickey |
| Subject: | Re: inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm |
| Date: | Sat, 07 Feb 2004 21:00:57 -0000 |
| User-agent: | tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.8 (sun4u)) |
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote: > This is a property of the terminal description. For xterm it contains > `kdch1=\E[3~' (terminfo) or `kD=\E[3~' (termcap), thus `ESC [ 3 ~' is > mapped to <deletechar>. \E[3~ is conventionally used to delete forward. The choice of BS or DEL for deleting backward depends on the user. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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