Delete key

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 03:54:27PM -0400, William J. McEachran thus spoke:
> 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.

It's not the only application with that "problem".

Sit at any shell prompt, or go into vi in insert mode, hit control-v and
then hit Delete.  You'll see the full sequence.

Some things are programmed to expect it.  Others are not.  I personally
wouldn't cater to it.  But then, I spend 15 years or so modifying loadkeys
defaults on boot to set it to ^? as God intended.  :)

You said either xterm or rxvt.  You just need to `man xmodmap` and look at
how to change the keysym to whatever you want it to be.  The xterm itself
may (or may not) have its own delete settings.

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