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

James K. Lowden <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greg Troxel wrote:
> > Someday I'll perhaps get around to spiffing up the guide to explain
> > this.
> 
> In case you need some encouragement...
> 
> One of these days, I'd like to do/see a presentation called "Journey of a
> Keystroke" that walked through all the layers of mediation and
> interpretation, and how they're controlled.  I'd like to know why --
> sooner or later, with enough indirection via ssh/rsh -- the backspace key
> starts being echoed as ^H when I mistype a search in less(1). 

less doesn't check "kb" capability and you have stty erase '^?' on
that system.


> Extra credit for explaining how to get the Compose key working in X
> in less than 30 minutes.

I can't test it at the moment, but make sure your compose key is
Multi_key.  E.g. add to the keyboard InputDevice section something
like:

        Option "XkbModel" "pc105compose"

to make right windows key Multi_key.  Your locale should be set
correctly too (i.e. only the compose sequences that result in the
chars from the locale charset will work).  See xc/nls/Compose for
details.


SY, Uwe
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