Re: Fix del key patch for Gnome-Terminal

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

Ali Abdin <aliabdin@aucegypt.edu> writes:

> It does appear to be a gnome-terminal brokeness because EVERYTHING ELSE
> WORKS. Every Gtk+ widget supports this, Every GNOME widget supports this.
> Every (X) application I've tried supports this. So it does appear to be an
> isolated problem with gnome-terminal.

Does it work in xterm, rxvt, eterm, etc?  Terminals handle backspace
and delete (and function keys and a bunch of other keys) a lot
differently than X applications.  One problem with this thing in
particular is that there's no clear standard as to what the Delete key
should send on a terminal.

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