From: matt <matthew.a.hess@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New C-h/Delete issue on emacs22.2.1-nox (Xquartz 2.3.0)
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 01:12:32 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <92626e59-9373-45b1-adb1-e15c2dbff667@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.15947.1218047239.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
PROBLEM SOLVED!
When you press a key in X that key sends a keynum that translates into
a keysym (okay, we know that!). Now... each keysym (a, b, c, Delete,
BackSpace, etc.) itself has a corresponding character or character
sequence is sent xterm which translates into xterm characters/actions
(you'll have to pardon my improvised nomenclature). The control
character keysyms are sent to xterm in ascii caret notation:
BackSpace -> ^H
Delete -> ^?
If xterm's emulate of vt100 used the normal ascii notation above I
could have just switched BackSpace and Delete and then set erase to
^?. However, by default xterm's Delete keysym sends to this weird
sequence: ^[[3~. God only knows why they did that...
In order to change this back to the normal ascii caret notation
sequence you have to set the backarrowKey variable (from X resources)
to false. You can do this by putting this line into the .Xdefaults
file in your home directory:
xterm.*backarrowKey: false
I owe my finding and a lot of gratitude to the author of this page:
http://www.hypexr.org/linux_ruboff.php
CHEERS!
matt
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-08 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-05 4:32 New C-h/Delete issue on emacs22.2.1-nox (Xquartz 2.3.0) matthew.a.hess
2008-08-05 6:28 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-08-05 8:01 ` matt
2008-08-05 14:54 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.15890.1217948083.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-05 22:24 ` matt
2008-08-05 22:39 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.15909.1217975993.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-06 1:00 ` matt
2008-08-06 6:44 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.15926.1218006293.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-06 16:19 ` matt
2008-08-06 18:27 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.15947.1218047239.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-08 8:12 ` matt [this message]
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