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Re: Keyboard problems


Chris Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:27:20PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
> >On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 07:12:51PM +0200, Jonas Jensen wrote:
> >>> The delete key doesn't work, it just produces a ~ and a beep. Pressing ^D
> >>> works, but it'd be a lot easier to just press delete...
> >
> >I'm stupid.  I was translating Delete into Backspace.
> >
> >I have duplicated this behavior but it is no different than 1.1.2 or 1.0, so this
> >bug was not newly introduced to 1.1.3.
> 
> FWIW, Linux does the same thing with the Delete key.  I don't know why.
> The key is properly defined in both termcap and terminfo.  It sounds like
> a problem with either bash or readline.
> 
> cgf

I may be out to lunch here, but doesn't adding a binding for "\e[3~"
as in:
bind '"\e[3~": delete-char'
do the right thing?

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