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I want delete to right-delete

Post by Ben Stanle » Wed, 01 Dec 1999 04:00:00



Hi,

I've been trying to figure out how to get my delete key to do a right
delete, much like ^D does. At the moment, it does exactly the same as my
backspace key in xterm, gnome-terminal and in a few other apps including
Mathematica for Linux. Notably, it behaves correctly in Netscape.

I'm running RedHat 6.1 and XFree86 3.3.5, using GNOME as a desktop
environment.

I found a section in the xmodmap man page on how to reverse the meaning
of backspace and delete, but that is not my problem. Mathematica has a
dialog which shows the keysym for the key you are pressing, and the
backspace key correctly displays backspace, and delete correctly
displays delete. I suspect that if I could fix it in an xterm, then it
would work correctly in a few other things, too.

Does anyone else know about this kind of thing?

Ben Stanley.

 
 
 
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I want delete to right-delete

Post by Ronn » Wed, 01 Dec 1999 04:00:00




> Hi,
> I've been trying to figure out how to get my delete key to do a
> right
> delete, much like ^D does. At the moment, it does exactly the same
> as my
> backspace key in xterm, gnome-terminal and in a few other apps
> including
> Mathematica for Linux. Notably, it behaves correctly in Netscape.
> I'm running RedHat 6.1 and XFree86 3.3.5, using GNOME as a desktop
> environment.
> Mathematica
> has a
> dialog which shows the keysym for the key you are pressing, and the
> backspace key correctly displays backspace, and delete correctly
> displays delete.
> I suspect that if I could fix it in an xterm,
> then it
> would work correctly in a few other things, too.

Not necessarily. To check what the key press actually emits (the key
code), use xev. Still, am application is basically free to do what it
wants with a key, and WRT xterm, this does depend on the shell you are
running. For instance, I use tcsh as a shell and to get the desired
behaviour, I have in my .tcshrc the command

   bindkey "^?" delete-char

This still would not do it for my Emacs, so I have in my .emacs the
command

   (define-key global-map '[delete] 'delete-char)

and so on.

Ronald

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I want delete to right-delete

Post by Dr Vincent C Jones » Thu, 02 Dec 1999 04:00:00






>> Hi,
>> I've been trying to figure out how to get my delete key to do a
>> right
>> delete, much like ^D does. At the moment, it does exactly the same
>> as my
>> backspace key in xterm, gnome-terminal and in a few other apps
>> including
>> Mathematica for Linux. Notably, it behaves correctly in Netscape.
>> I'm running RedHat 6.1 and XFree86 3.3.5, using GNOME as a desktop
>> environment.
>> Mathematica
>> has a
>> dialog which shows the keysym for the key you are pressing, and the
>> backspace key correctly displays backspace, and delete correctly
>> displays delete.
>> I suspect that if I could fix it in an xterm,
>> then it
>> would work correctly in a few other things, too.

>Not necessarily. To check what the key press actually emits (the key
>code), use xev. Still, am application is basically free to do what it
>wants with a key, and WRT xterm, this does depend on the shell you are
>running. For instance, I use tcsh as a shell and to get the desired
>behaviour, I have in my .tcshrc the command

>   bindkey "^?" delete-char

>This still would not do it for my Emacs, so I have in my .emacs the
>command

>   (define-key global-map '[delete] 'delete-char)

>and so on.

>Ronald

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See the web page http://www.ibbnet.nl/~anne/keyboard.html

She's done a marvelous job of making sense of the backspace versus
delete stupidity in Unix/Linux.

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