On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 03:25:39PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 12:10:44PM -0700, Rene Tio wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:58:39AM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:36:57AM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > > >  1) When typing on mutts command line, the 'delete' key works
> > > >     like the backspace key, i.e. it deletes the previous
> > > >     character, not the character under the cursor.
> > > 
> > > Add:
> > >   bind editor <delete> delete-char
> > > to your ~/.muttrc
> > 
> > 
> > I tried this earlier but it doesn't work.  It appears that mutt for my
> > installations (both NetBSD and RH6.0 Linux, v0.95) cannot remap the delete
> > key under windows.  The terminal it is running in (rxvt & xterm) do appear
> > to be able to separate the two, so it is not a terminal or xmodmap problem.
> 
> 
> Okay, some more experimentation.  Dominik, "bind editor <Delete>" didn't
> work for me but the following did:
> 
>       bind editor \C? delete-char
> 
> This made the DEL key delete forward and the backspace key (\Ch) delete
> backward.
> 
> > I appear to be unable to remap the editor ^G key as well, BTW.

Thanks, for the replies. 'bind editor <delete> delete-char' works for
me while 'bind editor \C? delete-char' doesn't.

Bye

Dominik ^_^

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