Delete key

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014, William J. McEachran wrote:
>linux and xterm

The DELETE key usage is an abomination from SCO days.

It isn't handled on *nix systems with termcap, but with the stty
intr (interrupt) setting which is ctrl-C on pretty much anything
other than SCO systems.

I generally have this in my startup script to set the interrupt
and backspace to sane values (which works fine in xterms, but not
on the Linux default console setup which uses the DECish DEL
character from the backspace key).

stty intr '^C' erase '^H'

Then to be on the safe side in my $HOME/XTerm file, read by xterm
on startup, I have:

XTerm*ttyModes: intr ^C erase ^H kill ^U

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>On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio.com> wrote:
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>> With Anzio as your terminal emulator, or what?
>>
>> What terminal type?
>>
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>> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, William J. McEachran wrote:
>>
>>  I've lost my notes on handling this ... perhaps one of you remember.
>>>
>>> In filepro pressing the DELETE key generates a "3~"
>>>
>>> I'd like to have it do nothing or delete the next character.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> --
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