Re: tetex-doc & backspace in xdvik

[Stefan Ulrich <stefanulrich@users.sourceforge.net>]

Prakash Countcham <prakash.countcham@imag.fr> writes:

> In fact, I read the documentation of xdvi (not xdvik) because the description
> was missing in the man page. It bounds Backspace to up-or-previous. See:
> http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/xdvi1.html

That was the manpage of xdvik, but a rather old version (22.4x, 2002).
It has been changed since then because I found it more useful to have
each of the keys DEL, Backspace do something different. I admit that
it's a bit problematic to change it and have the new behaviour differ
from xpdf and gv. But you can get back the old behaviour by adding the
following to your ~/.Xdefaults and invoking `xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults':

XDvi.mainTranslations: #override\n\
     <Key>BackSpace:up-or-previous()\n\
     <Key>osfBackSpace:up-or-previous()\n

Best,
Stefan