Bug#2313: xterm keymapping problems suspected
>Also, with "stty raw; cat -v", I see that the Backspace and DEL
>keys both produce ^? ('\177') in an xterm. (the "cat -v" will
>need to be killed from another terminal session after this, and
>"reset" or "stty sane" done). The Backspace and DEL keys should
>produce distinct sequences.
When I was playing with this, it seems that Backspace and DEL are the
same key as far as X is concerned. Even the Xkeysym utilities always
reported identical codes for both keys. Not that I'm an expert on this...
I just wanted to map DEL and BS differently in emacs.
Brian
( bcwhite@bnr.ca )
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