Re: delete key acting like backspace

[cjw44@cam.ac.uk (Colin Watson)]

jjlupa@jamdata.net wrote:
>I have _no_ idea how this started happening, but recently, the two
>programs I type in the most (Eterm, emacs) have started treating my
>backspace key the same as my delete key. (others such as xterm and
>gnome-terminal work but gnu-cash doesn't).
>
>I've seen people struggle with this kind of thing before so I'm sure
>someone out there will know the answer for me, but beyond fixing the
>problem, does anyone know _why_ this behavior would start? I'm running
>potato and keeping pretty up to date with the "tip".

See the Debian X Window System FAQ, in /usr/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz;
it goes into a fair bit of detail about this.

HTH,

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Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]