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

[alexander volovics <awol STAT UNIMAAS NL>]

On 02-Apr-99 Jens Lautenbacher wrote:

> alexander volovics <awol@STAT.UNIMAAS.NL> writes:

>> I have got the same additions as you have (though I have implemented
>> them differently).
 
> How exactly?

Enter the same escape sequences you use in the Xresources file and get
termcap/terminfo to match these. (suggestion of Hans de Goede, see:
http://electron.et.tudelft.nl/~jdegoede/)

>> This works perfectly in xterm, i.e.
>> delete = delete under cursor
>> backspace = delete backwards
>> home = beginning of line
>> end = end of line
>> 
>> But `delete = delete under cursor' does NOT work in gnome-terminal
>> and it also does not work in Eterm (at least not for me).
> 
> which is funny as for me it started working at the same time (after
> modifications) 
> 
> what does C-V Backspace and C-V Del print (console, xterm,
> gnome-terminal)?

                C-V Backspace   C-V Delete
console         ^?              ^[[3~
xterm           ^?              ^[[3~
gnome-terminal  ^?              ^H

I find this strange because the gnome-terminal help states that
gnome-terminal provides the same terminal emulation as an xterm!
So I was surprised that a solution for xterm would not work for
gnome-terminal.

(I did not expect it to work for Eterm as that is based on rxvt)


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Alexander Volovics
Dept of Methodology & Statistics
Maastricht University, Maastricht, NL
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