Re: gnome-terminal: "DEL"-key behaviour

[alexander volovics <awol STAT UNIMAAS NL>]

On 01-Apr-99 Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
>> Neither under SuSE nor under RH 5.2 have I been able to find a way to do
>> this in gnome-terminal/bash.
>> It works perfectly in for example gedit.
> 
> What does work perfectly?

The delete key deletes the character under the cursor and does not jump
backwards. The backspace key deletes 'backwards'. 
I just gave gedit as an example where this can be seen, also in gxedit
and gnotepad.
I would like to have this in gnome-terminal also.

> It does work here on my SGI running IRIX and the code certainly works
> for that.  Did you click on "Apply" after clicking on the dialog box?

Yes I clicked on Apply.
 
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Alexander Volovics
Dept of Methodology & Statistics
Maastricht University, Maastricht, NL
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