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Date:      Sat, 13 May 2000 11:49:53 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@monrif.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions mailing list <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: DEL key acts like BackSpace
Message-ID:  <20000513114953.I31094@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000512233212.A443@casimirhost.kasby>
References:  <20000512233212.A443@casimirhost.kasby>

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On Friday, 12 May 2000 at 23:32:12 +0200, Francesco Casadei wrote:
> 	Why the DEL key deletes the character before the cursor (just like
> BackSpace) instead of deleting the character after the cursor?

Because that's its purpose.

> Only in Netscape Navigator's location bar DEL deletes the characters
> to the right of the cursor.

I consider this incorrect.

> Nevertheless the assignments for DEL and BS in it.iso.kbd (the
> keymap file I use) seem to be correct:
>
>    014   bs     bs     del    del    bs     bs     del    del     O
>
>    083   del    '.'    '.'    '.'    '.'    '.'    boot   boot    N
>          ^^^

Seems reasonable.

> I have a 105-keys italian keyboard and I use bash 2.03.0(1)-release and
> FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE.

Remember that command line editing isn't a kernel function.  If you're
talking about bash, the character for deleting the character to the
right of the cursor is ^D (ctrl-D).  Look at the man page for the
others.

Greg
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