On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:02:05PM -0700, Michael Morris wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. > > Both of the keys on the keyboard marked "Delete", above the cursor > movement keys and in the numeric keypad appear to do the same thing. > > I have tried this inthe virtual console tty, XTerm, Konsole, and ETerm > and they pretty much behave the same. > > This was done at the command line in sh, csh, and bash. It was also > tried in vim and Some GUI apps like Evolution. > > At the virtual console tty pressing the Delete key deletes the character > to the left of the cursor rather than the one below it. In XTer and > ETerm is insets a tilde character.
To get XTerm to generate a DEL when you hit the Delete key, you need to add the following line into ~/.Xdefaults: xterm*deleteIsDEL: true -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message