From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 1:13:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E423D37B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 01:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C802A43E31 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 01:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g668DBOQ000337; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:13:11 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g668DBpb000336; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:13:11 +1200 (NZST) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:13:11 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Guy Middleton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X11 delete key remap (was Re: csh hates me, won't let me use del as interrupt (4.6-RELEASE)) Message-ID: <20020706081311.GA297@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020704135152.A7591@chaos.obstruction.com> <20020706002622.A15436@chaos.obstruction.com> <20020706050853.GA396@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20020706012607.A15725@chaos.obstruction.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020706012607.A15725@chaos.obstruction.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:26:07AM -0400, Guy Middleton wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:08:53AM -0400, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > Ok, it looks as if csh isn't at fault here. I'm seeing this behaviour > > > with all shells, but only while in xterm. It works as expected on the > > > system console. > > > > Perhaps what you need to add in ~/.Xdefaults is: > > > > xterm*deleteIsDEL: true > > This works! > > Is this something new in the current xterm? It was never necessary before. It got introduced sometime in XFree86-4, I think; I had to dig around to find this tidbit after upgrading. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" - Edmond Blackadder III To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message