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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: Map Backspace to ASCII DEL?
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:24:55 -0700
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Ian Brandt wrote:

> Dr.D.J.Picton wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> I think that rxvt has the functionality which you require.  For example:
>>
>> rxvt -backspacekey ^? -deletekey ^h
>> will give you a session in which the backspace key generates ^h and the
>> delete key generates ^?.  (It might then be useful to issue stty 
>> -erase ^?
>> so that you can use the backspace key to delete characters in simple
>> terminal input.)
>>
>> In the case of emacs, have you tried running it under X11?  In this 
>> mode it
>> can distinguish between the backspace key (which it interprets as a
>> 'delete last character' function) and ^h (which calls the help command).
>
> rxvt is purely an X application though, no?  

No. It's not a purely X only application. If you do not give it a 
-display nor have DISPLAY set then it works quite well with Windows - in 
fact better than the Cygwin console mode (with the exception of some 
programs that do not understand ptys like cleartool!).



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