Delete key

[William J. McEachran]

I just don't think that hitting the DEL key should behave so unexpectedly
... inserting "~3"'s in fields.

As the only application with this problem is filePro ... I think I'll live
with it for the moment but come back to it when time permits.



On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:

> 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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