Re: [PATCH] Change <delete> to delete forward in the editor menu.

On Sun, Jul 26, 2026 at 13:52 (+0200), Oswald Buddenhagen via Mutt-dev wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 02:21:27PM -0300, Jim via Mutt-dev wrote:
>> I don't know who does this where, but on my system (Slackware64 15.0)
>> when I press the backspace key, it sends delete (and when I press the
>> actual delete key, it sends ^H).

> that's just weird. quick googling didn't yield anything useful, so i asked a
> chatbot [1]. nothing definite, either, but lots of leads to check. i'd start
> with checking what a vt does (note that vts nowadays also load xkb keymaps).

> [1] https://chatgpt.com/share/6a65f416-216c-83ed-a497-54e9c590f500

>> (I don't have backspace and delete swapped with my Xmodmap file, and
>> there is no system Xmodmap file.)

> xmodmap has been obsolete for some 2+ decades.

It still works quite well, so it is hardly obsolete.  There may be newer,
shinier and more wonderful ways to do the same thing(s), but that hardly
makes it obsolete.