Re: xterm in XQuartz 2.7.3 and deleteIsDEL
Re: xterm in XQuartz 2.7.3 and deleteIsDEL
- Subject: Re: xterm in XQuartz 2.7.3 and deleteIsDEL
- From: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:06:03 -0700
Sounds like an xterm bug. Adding Thomas.
On Sep 5, 2012, at 16:38, Mike Thornburg <email@hidden> wrote:
> I haven't been able to get the deleteIsDEL setting to work in the version of xterm that ships with XQuartz 2.7.3 -- xterm version 281. I've verified that "Delete is DEL" is checked in xterm's Main Options menu, but xterm still sends the <ESC>[3~ escape sequence when I hit the delete key on my keyboard.
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> When I extract xterm version 278 from the XQuartz 2.7.2 disk image and run that on my XQuartz 2.7.3 installation then the deleteIsDEL setting works again as I expect it to.
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> I'm using a MacBook Pro, so in order to get the delete key to send del instead of ^H I have to use xmodmap to set keycode 59 to Delete, but this has always worked in the past, and I have verified with xev that pressing the delete key still registers as Delete once my custom keymap entry is installed. Also, if the xmodmap setting had failed I would expect xterm not to send the <ESC>[3~ sequence but instead send ^H when the delete key was pressed.
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> Were there any MacOS X-specific changes made to the xterm that shipped with XQuartz 2.7.3, or is this an issue that I need to take up upstream with the xterm maintainer?
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> Mike
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