Delete key

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:11:08PM -0700, Bill Campbell thus spoke:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014, William J. McEachran wrote:
> >linux and xterm
> 
> The DELETE key usage is an abomination from SCO days.

No argument, but that's not the particular abomination he was having issues
with.  He seemed to want it to act like a Windows/Dos Delete key, not a SCO
SIGINT.

I have -always- disagreed with the decision for the 'linux'
termcap/terminfo setting of IBM's "Erase" with the ^[[3~ sequence.  And
every blessed person on the kernel dev scene with whom I brought it up
disagreed with me, as they claim to have gone with the strict DEC
definition of vt100, rather than what later became convention.

The default linux keymap hasn't changed for US-QWERTY in 20 years.  It's
probably never going to.

mark->
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