On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 12:57:09PM +0100, Martti Kühne wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> wrote: > > Next thing with st that I found. The delete key doesn't work, unless > > I'm in a curses application (mutt & vim at least work fine). But at > > the command prompt (bash) it doesn't do anything. Backspace works > > fine. > > > > Let me know if I can provide more useful information. > > > > no. please. stop it. [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], of which [2], > [4], and [6] are only loosely related, but close enough.
Apologies Martti, I was away from the mailing list at the time of these messages, and didn't search as I should have done. I also should have read the FAQ... The suggested command 'echo $(tput smkx) >/dev/tty' works fine. However, setting enable-keypad in .inputrc has strange results. It doesn't make a difference to the delete key functionality, but does result in the 'k' key not being recognised... Also it wasn't clear from the FAQ whether I should put 'enable-keypad On' or 'enable-keypad Off' into .inputrc; as it turned out both had the above behaviour for me. So can anybody provide suggestions to get the .inputrc solution to work? Thanks, and apologies again for not searching for a solution first. Nick