From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 10 8: 7:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gallagher.chicago.il.us (el01-24-131-151-85.ce.mediaone.net [24.131.151.85]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD73442F for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:07:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from fatman2k (fatman2.burke.org [192.168.0.2]) by gallagher.chicago.il.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA68138; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:06:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from burke@gallagher.chicago.il.us) Message-ID: <004301bf73e0$c2cdf7d0$0200a8c0@fatman2k> From: "Burke Gallagher" To: "Volker Dormeyer" , References: <20000210164525.A2322@t-online.de> Subject: Re: DELETE Key Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:06:16 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG the code "\e[3~" is for vt100 emulation. your TERM is set to pc25. use "\C-?": delete-char instead. also if you type Ctrl-v followed by any key bash will show you that key's code. you may also want to look at the "Consistent BackSpace and Delete Configuration" page by Anne Baretta http://www.ibbnet.org/~anne/keyboard.html It is very Linux specific but serves as a good guideline on the subject. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Volker Dormeyer" To: Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 9:45 AM Subject: DELETE Key > Hi, > > I have some problems to make the DELETE key act as DEL (delete > char under cursor) and not as BACKSPACE. I use the bash-shell > an I have a .inputrc with the line > > "\e[3~" delete-char > > But it doesn't work as expected. I modified some keymap-files to > configure keycode 111 as DEL, but it also doesn´t work. > > Can somebody help me with this? And how the keycodes are > interpreted by the FreeBSD kernel? > > Sorry, perhaps this question has been asked several times, but I > can't find something about it on the online-docs. > > > Volker > > -- > ########################################## > Volker Dormeyer # V.Dormeyer@t-online.de > ########################################## > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message