Hans-Christian Becker wrote:
> After building the world and also building and installing X from 
> sources of June 9, the backspace key on my (Apple USB) keyboard 
> generates ~. ctrl-H works alright though, and backspace seems to work 
> OK in for example xemacs. Clues, anyone? This is on a macppc machine.

You need to set the XTerm.vt100.deleteIsDEL X resource to true (see
xrdb if you don't know how to do this). From the xterm manual page:

       deleteIsDEL (class DeleteIsDEL)
               Specifies whether the Delete key  on  the  editing
               keypad  should  send  DEL (127) or the VT220-style
               Remove escape sequence.  The default is ``false,''
               for the latter.

(Yup, I think this is stupid.)
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Michael Eriksson <eramore@era-t.ericsson.se>
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