On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 11:50:43AM +0000, Zefram wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:44:09AM +0000, Zefram wrote: > > Thomas Dickey wrote: > >which translation was performing the backspace? > > I'm not sure what you mean by this question. The relevant item in the > translations resource is > > <Key>BackSpace: string(0x08) that's not in xterm's source, and I was replying to the current email and had forgotten that you stated this in the original report, so I asked. > I have other translation items in the same resource, such as > > Alt <Key>b: scroll-back(1,page) > > which are equally affected by this problem. again, that's a customization not in the original package (though I agree that it's reasonable to be able to do this) > I've stored the resource under different keys at different times, as > described in my previous message. In one experiment I had separate > XTerm.vt100.translations and XTerm.vt100.scrollbar.translations, > and for the experiment I put different content in the two resources. > XTerm.vt100.translations applied when focus was on the text, frame, > or titlebar, and XTerm.vt100.scrollbar.translations applied when focus > was on the scrollbar. My permanent setup has only a single translations > resource, under the key "XTerm.vt100*translations". > > >As long as the translations merge rather than override, that's a good solution. > > I'm not sure what you're imagining merging. As I have only one > translations resource, there's no merging to perform among my resources. > My resource does merge with the default key and mouse bindings, of which > the mouse bindings differ between scrollbar context and other contexts. The way the translations work, it's possible for a customized set of translations to append-to, merge-with or override the compiled-in translations. At startup, xterm (tries to) merge the translations for the terminal-window with the scrollback, but that's limited due to the lack of a good library interface for X resources. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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