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#! rnews 2142 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!hermes.sovam.com!sovam!Gamma.RU!srcc!not-for-mail From: "Eugene Radchenko" <genie@qsar.chem.msu.su> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to make the "DEL" key work? Date: 16 May 1997 12:08:12 GMT Organization: Dept. of Chemistry, Moscow State University Lines: 28 Message-ID: <01bc61f1$d3210360$6330fa9e@org-qsar2.chem.msu.su> References: <01bc60f7$b4bcec40$232c3d9b@muna019> <5lf7gq$3av@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: org.chem.msu.su Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1160 Cache-Post-Path: org.chem.msu.su!unknown@org-qsar2.chem.msu.su Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41029 Brian Somers <brian@shift.utell.net> wrote in article <5lf7gq$3av@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>... > In article <01bc60f7$b4bcec40$232c3d9b@muna019>, > "Andreas Hinterleitner" <ahinterleitn@bangate.eur.compaq.com> writes: > > I use bash 2.0 and FreeBSD 2.2.1 with german keyboard settings, but the > > DEL-key acts just like the backspace key. I want it to delete the char > The only way I can think of is to change your keyboard map > file so that DEL sends CTRL-d. Check the keymap variable > in /etc/sysconfig and edit the file it refers to. You > need to change the definition for key 083. Here is my .inputrc file that enables normal behavior of Del, Home and End keys in bash: DEL: delete-char "\e[H": beginning-of-line "\e[F": end-of-line Hope this helps Genie -- ######################################################### Eugene V. Radchenko Research associate, Computer Chemistry E-mail: genie@qsar.chem.msu.su http://org.chem.msu.su/~genie =================================================== Once installed, CD-ROM can be connected to Internet via your computer's modem ---- TV Commercial, Intel Corp. Russia