Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete - oops
Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete - oops
- Subject: Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete - oops
- From: "Ambrose Li" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:37:17 -0400
On 03/04/2008, Dushan Mitrovich <email@hidden> wrote:
> I do notice, tho, that the gnuplot window has - and always had - a diffe-
> rent font and size than the xterm window. But in neither one does the
> Delete key do a forward delete.
Getting all apps to forward delete is very tricky. The problem is that
there never was a tradition of distinguishing between forward and
backward deletes, and the app will decide if pressing the Delete
key means forward or backward (most apps say backward, only a
few ancient apps do forward deletes when the delete key is pressed).
If the app in question runs in a terminal (gnuplot, the shell in the xterm,
etc.), it will also depend on how the app will "know" what a forward
delete key is (there is no concept of a forward delete in traditional
terminal-based apps, all deletes are backwards). For apps using
GNU readline, you might be able to actually do this by mapping the
Delete key to Control-D, but I don't really recommend this since that
would be kind of dangerous.
--
cheers,
-ambrose
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abuse contact need to be cut off the net...)
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