Re: use of the Delete key on Dec keyboard or similar

2000-12-02 Thread Richard Stallman
Okay, now if I understand all this correctly, keyboards (and computers) did not have a delete-to-the-right key or keycode. Indeed, www.asciitable.com shows ascii 8 as Backspace and ascii 127 as DEL. If DEL is interpreted as delete-to-the-left, then we have two codes that mean t

Re: use of the Delete key on Dec keyboard or similar

2000-12-01 Thread Richard Stallman
I still do the majority of my work on Linux in terminal windows. It loooks like you're referring to the GNU/Linux operating system, rather than the Linux kernel; if so, would you please write "GNU/Linux"? The GNU Project needs to get credit for the developing the GNU system, since this

Re: use of the Delete key on Dec keyboard or similar

2000-11-30 Thread Richard Stallman
Thanks for sending the report. Gimp developers, I asked Olivier to report this because it is a serious (though superficial) problem. Since the Gimp only runs under a window system, it should be able to handle both Backspace and Delete in the same way (as delete-backwards), since both of them can