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

Greg Troxel skrev:
> Dieter <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Now... how do we fix programs suffering from this
>> "delete-right" brain damage so that the "Delete" key
>> does the correct "delete-left" function?  I'm thinking
>> mainly of web browsers like links -g and mozilla.
>>
>> (On an X terminal talking via Ethernet, presumably no
>> wscons involved.)
> 
> F that's really what you want, probably then remap the Delete key to
> Backspace.  The key point is that in the old days there was a delete key
> that sent ASCII DEL.  Modern PC keyboards simply do not have such a key.
> The Delete key on PC keyboards really ought to be thought of as
> KP_Delete, not Delete.
> 
> But if you're on a PC, then in firefox etc. the backspace key will
> delete left, and you can ignore the Delete key, and that's pretty much
> the right thing even though the keys are mislabled.

Well, even though I haven't found any documentation on the resources 
firefox uses, there are some, including the resource telling what key do 
what. So you can actually beat firefox into behaving like a sensible 
program...

If someone else haven't posted that, and people still want to know, I'll 
search for my file where I set it up, and post it.

	Johnny

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