Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 01:35:29 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Shane Helms <jovial_man@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: delete key in X Message-ID: <20051206233529.GA3387@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <20051206223934.55404.qmail@web35006.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20051206223934.55404.qmail@web35006.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 2005-12-06 14:39, Shane Helms <jovial_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have my delete key sorted in console through use of inputrc file -
> i'm using bash shell. in X however it has a very undesirable
> behavior... in terminals it behaves just like my backspace key -
> i.e. it deletes the char to the left of the cursor. i like it to
> delete the character to the right of the cursor. what should I do??
>
> the only *effective* solution that I found in list archives was to set
> Delete to behave as Ctrl+D which is definitely not the right thing to
> do...
>
> I'd appreciate a help for this newbie freebsd user. Please reply to
> my email address as i'm not on the list.
I always run screen(1) in my xterm windows, with a TERM=vt220, which
works fine for all the programs I regularly use.
Another solution is probably to set the following X11 resource in your
~/.Xresources file:
XTerm*deleteIsDEL: true
and 'merge' the new .Xresources file with:
$ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
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