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Date:      Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:30:03 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Volker Dormeyer <V.Dormeyer@t-online.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DELETE Key
Message-ID:  <38A2F59B.430F58AF@3-cities.com>
References:  <20000210164525.A2322@t-online.de>

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Volker Dormeyer wrote:
> 
> 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?

Usually you do something like "stty erase '^H'" in your .cshrc or
whatever.

Kent

> 
> Sorry, perhaps this question has been asked several times, but I
> can't find something about it on the online-docs.
> 
> Volker
> 
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