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From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H
Date: 26 Mar 1997 21:06:47 +0000
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>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Reilly <andrew@gurney.zeta.org.au> writes:
Andrew> Yes, but which escape sequence, and how do you do that?
Andrew> I've discovered that using xmodmap to make the "<-" key
Andrew> return "Delete" makes emacs happy, but Netscape and other
Andrew> Motif-style applications insist on "BackSpace". So what's
Andrew> one to do?
Here's what I did:
- modified the keyboard tables so that "<--" generates 0x7f, shift-"<--"
generates 0x08, and "Delete" generates \E[K (a fairly arbitrary choice,
but there seemed to be little logic in the other key assignments)
- modified the cons25 termcap (actually, I created a new cons25x entry, and
made all the console screens use it) to have kb=\177 and kD=\E[K
- made Emacs bind the "Delete" keysym to [deletechar] in function-key-map
rather than to [DEL] (and removed the ascii-character property from
the Delete keysym)
- set the following X resources:
*VT100.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace:string(0x7F) \n\
<Key>Delete:string("\033[3~") \n\
<Key>Home:string("\033[1~") \n\
<Key>End:string("\033[4~")
I think that was all. (I may have diddled with the xterm termcap, I'm not
sure.) Emacs is happy (whether on the text console, X or in an xterm);
Netscape is happy; everything else I've tried is happy.
This is on 2.1.6 (which I will upgrade to 2.2 as soon as I am sure that the
damned thing will stay on the FTP servers long enough for me to download it)
using Emacs 19.34.
--
Andrew.