On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 10:15:15AM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Wed, 31 May 2000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> 
> > PC keyboard, so by "backspace", I mean the one with the arrow, by "delete",
> > I mean the one below "insert".
> > 
> > old xterm (1 May):
> >   backspace: ^?
> >   delete:    ^?
> >   ctl-H: actually erases
> > new xterm (29 May):
> >   backspace: [3~
> >   delete:    [3~
> >   ctl-H: actually erases
> > 
> > xev says that both "backspace" and "delete" return "Delete".
> 
> That would be xterm remapping the keysym before curses sees it. Try
> unchecking the "BackArrow" key in xterm's Control-MouseButton1 pop-up
> menu. If that works, you could set "XTerm*BackarrowKey: false" in your
> ~/.Xresources-${DISPLAY}, or whatever file ${XENVIRONMENT} points to.

Ah! The new xterm has a "Delete is DEL" option which does the trick!
(with either version of xterm-xf86-v32)

Cheers,

Patrick