On Sun, Jul 26, 2026 at 13:52 (+0200), Oswald Buddenhagen via Mutt-dev wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 02:21:27PM -0300, Jim via Mutt-dev wrote: >> I don't know who does this where, but on my system (Slackware64 15.0) >> when I press the backspace key, it sends delete (and when I press the >> actual delete key, it sends ^H). > that's just weird. quick googling didn't yield anything useful, so i asked a > chatbot [1]. nothing definite, either, but lots of leads to check. i'd start > with checking what a vt does (note that vts nowadays also load xkb keymaps). > [1] https://chatgpt.com/share/6a65f416-216c-83ed-a497-54e9c590f500 >> (I don't have backspace and delete swapped with my Xmodmap file, and >> there is no system Xmodmap file.) > xmodmap has been obsolete for some 2+ decades. It still works quite well, so it is hardly obsolete. There may be newer, shinier and more wonderful ways to do the same thing(s), but that hardly makes it obsolete.
