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From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
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Hi,

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:06:58 -0600
Dave Babb <dcbdbis@comcast.net> wrote:

> Good Morning All,
> 
> Upon a recommendation of a fellow and very experienced FreeBSD
> user...I have switched from bash to tcsh as my user shell.  I have
> not and will not change the root's shell from sh.
> 
> But regardless if I am at a CLI or in a terminal window on my "X"
> based desktop, tcsh is behaving strange. sh has the same issue.
> 
> Let me explain: If I fat finger something into the cli....lets say 
> "freeecolor -om"....If I was to place my cursor on the last "e" and 
> backspace...everythings fine...However if I put my cursor on that
> same letter and press the delete key...it doesn't delete the letter,
> rather it inserts a tilde "~". "sh" behaves the same way on my system.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can correct this behavior?

you need something like

      bindkey "\e[3~" delete-char		# make Delete key work;


in your .tcshrc

Erich