mapping delete key

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Only Richard D. Williams would say something like:
> Does anyone know how I can change the behavior of the delete key for a 
> xterm emulation?
> This would be for filepro only. 
> 
> I would like to change my filepro termcap so the Delete key works the 
> same as the scoansi Delete key instead of having to do a ctrl-c.

man xmodmap

I don't actually remember the full syntax anymore though.  Been quite a
while since I've regularly used X11.  There's a section in the examples in
the man page that shows setting Backspace to emit "^?", so you should be
able to extrapolate.

You're not exactly on about just for an xterm though.  Using something like
xmodmap is going to change it server-wide (well, session-wide).  So if that
key is currently doing something like the IBM Remove "^[[3~" sequence, and
you force it to generate 0x7F, -all- your applications are going to have to
be able to cope with that key emitting that.  For an xterm, you'll just
need to set INTR to "^?", and that's no problem.  Most other things don't
care.  Some might, though.  Web browsers used to have funny ideas about ^H
vs ^? in text input widgets--especially Motif-based anything.

But for an xterm to do what you want, you need to xmodmap to get the key
emitting the right code, and -also- stty inside the shell, or set that
discipline when starting the xterm (-tm intr "^?").  You need the
combination of actions for this to work.

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