On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:24:16PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > >I think my reply crossed with yours, but I'm still finding things > >slightly odd. OTOH, I'm probably using konsole more than I did when > >I tested kde in qemu - I think that I was mostly using rxvt unicode > >there, but here I have not started that, trying to unlearn the > >things that my fingers default to. I guess I might get used to it. > > It seems to be more than just fingers. I seem to remember needing at times > to swap the del key and backspace key. >
Interesting. By "unlearn" I was referring to the X/urxvt keys (ctrl-alt-Fn, ctrl-alt-space for a commandline on the panel, and probably others - ctrl-alt-Fn is a particular problem running qemu desktops in icewm, I keep accidentally changing to the qemu serial console). > On my system the proper sequence is: > > With the lines > > abcde > 12345 > vwxyz > > If the cursor is on 5 > > BS Normal: cursor backs up to 4 > BS Insert: 4 is erased and the 5 moves left one character. Cursor still on 5. > DEL Normal: 5 is is erased and cursor backs up to the 4 > DEL Insert: 5 is erased and cursor is now on a blank space (actually EOL) > > If the cursor is to the right of 5 (only in insert mode): > > Backspace deletes 5 and cursor moves left 1. > Delete removes the EOL so we get > > abcde > 12345vwxyz > > -- Bruce > Thanks, I'll take a look at that tomorrow - for the moment I'm leaving it to try to build libreoffice (this time, with the kde configure switch if I've made the change correctly). Still lots of loose ends here (in my buildscripts), I'll hopefully get back to development in a few days. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
