skribis Gilbert Laycock: > Pete> Does Alt-backspace work for anyone in an xterm (deleting the previous > Pete> word on bash input, for example)? This worked fine in Bo and before. > > What kind of keyboard do you have? On my 104 key ("windows 95") > keyboard, the "windows" key produces Meta and the Alt key produces Alt > when in X. Meta-backspace deletes the previous word in bash in an > xterm. Alt-backspace just deletes one character. Using an rxvt it is > the other way around. > > It is my understanding that Meta and Alt should be separate when there > are enough keyboard buttons to allow it, and that Meta-backspace is > the definitive way to delete a word, since it is emulating "emacs key > bindings".
But then `Alt-Backspace' in emacs deletes one word, as it does on the VC and so on. So I don't see the point in doing it different on an xterm. Nor do I think it is good: When I press `Alt-Backspace', I want something different to happen than when I just press `Backspace'. Whatever `different' means is discutable, but just mapping the two keys to the same action seems not quite the best thing. Mapping Both Alt and Esc to the same thing seem s OK to me, as that's what happens in most other environments too. > > -- > > Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock > Leicester University phone: (+44) 116 252 3902 >