Delete key

[Seth]

Thanks for the clarification. No need for the F2 key any longer. Certainly
no need for insane hacking.

Thanks again to all.

Seth


On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 08:31:20AM -0400, Seth thus spoke:
> > Thanks Ken.
> >
> > I set the P1 entry to P1=\E[3~ and it works. Set the PFINSERTMODE=ON, and
> > that works. Viola! 29 years of this. Noticed that this was new to 5.0.
> >
> > Noticed that F2 now does not delete any longer but appears to insert an
> > EscB? Is this supposed to do this? Is this a bug? Are there other changes
> > that PFINSERTMODE=ON makes?
>
> It has nothing to do with PFINSERTMODE.
>
> You changed the value of P1.  It formerly was keyed in to what F2 would
> generate.  You've changed that to the sequence Delete issues, so F2 is now
> useless to you.  I'm not sure what you expected.
>
> If you want -both- to work, you need to get your terminal sending F2's
> codes and then set P1 back to the original code it had (the one from F2).
> Then you'd have both F2 and Delete issuing the same sequences and acting
> identically.
>
> For X11 environments:
>
> man xmodmap
>
> For virtual consoles:
>
> man loadkeys
>
> I doubt it's even possible in PuTTY, barring source code hacking and
> recompiling.  I also doubt it's possible in Anzio Lite, as the key
> definition files are compiled/binary, and totally uneditable.  It may be
> possible in Anzio Pro, but considering I won't even recommend Lite, I'm
> sure as hell not recommending Pro.
>
> What you're trying to do is really never meant to be done.  There are gross
> hacks, but it's entirely non-standard, it -will- cause you problems, and as
> far as I'm personally concerned, you're on your own if you want to pursue
> an idea that far out there.  Someone else wants to pursue this course of
> insanity with you, that's their lookout.
>
> mark->
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