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

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