a b wrote:
Why? Delete is the proper key to use for doing a step back; this> ain't PC land where
they confused DEL (destructive) and Backspace> (non destructive) with Backspace
(delete left) and DEL (delete under).> I *never* want to delete what is to the right
of the cursor.
As someone who grew up on a DEC VT220 (and VT320, and VT400):
forget it. 99% of the people out there experience [BACKSPACE] as the key to delete with. And not even 35 years of UNIX-ingrained thinking, including people like me who grew up on it, is going to change that.
Personally, whatever settings I have result in *both* backspace and
delete deleting the character to the left. If you want the same
behaviour, you can try:
1) For gnome-terminal, go to Edit->Current Profile from the menu bar.
Select the "Compatibility" tab and then one or both of the
"backspace/delete key generates" items to "ASCII DEL". I have both.
2) For CDE, including all Motif apps, put the following in
~/.Xdefaults, and then make sure this gets loaded at desktop startup:
---------------------------------------------------------
*XmText.translations: #override\n\
<Key>osfDelete: delete-previous-character()
*XmTextField.translations: #override\n\
<Key>osfDelete: delete-previous-character()
---------------------------------------------------------
Not sure about other GNOME apps -- personally in things like Firefox I
have "backspace" deleting to the left and "delete" deleting forwards.
But I don't know what was configured to make it do this...
If Sun continues with the [DEL] key being used to backspace-delete stuff,
that's just being unreasonable. I support Sun Microsystems and Sun engineers
99% of the time, but this is 1% where even I have to write:
So I just checked on a vanilla Nevada instalation (in VMware), withtou
the settings above -- in this case only one of the keys works. The big
fat backspace key deletes to the left while delete generates an ugly
escape sequence. At least until you do the gnome-terminal fix above.
Sorry I can't tell you *how* this works for me, but it's possible this
is because of having a Unix layout Sun keyboard -- I think a swap of
"Delete" and "backspace" was one of the differences between this and the
non-Unix layout keyboards.
As others have said, xmodmap or similar may be your friends.
Hugh.
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