Delete key

[William J. McEachran]

In vi, in edit mode with or without the visual block, the DEL key deletes
the intended characters for me with xterm and from linux console (Ubuntu
12.4.4).

The problem as it relates to how I use filepro appears to need  attention
in multiple places.  I'll have come back to it at another time.

Thanks for the input ... I've saved the messages.



On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> mark->
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