Re: An old unix Issue the Delete key how do you fix it

[email protected] (Peter Seebach)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In message <[email protected]>, mowestusa writes:
>The Delete key functions exactly like the Backspace
>key. Both erase characters to the left of the cursor.

That's normal.

>You may need to type one of the following commands to
>get your delete key to work properly, depending on
>your keyboard:
>                # stty erase '^h'
>                # stty erase '^?'

The problem is, what everyone ELSE is trying to do is get "the single
key I have, whatever it is, delete-left".

Many editors simply don't HAVE a key for "delete-right".

-s
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