On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:04:11PM +0100, Julian Coleman wrote:
> 
> Depends on your point of view.  I side with you, but the spec. implies that
> the 'Delete' key is the opposite of the 'Insert' key, and not the 'Del' key
> [#].  Thus, the new xterm terminfo/termcap has this as sending '\E[3~'.  If
> you have a PC-style keyboard (or new Sun, or ...) this is probably OK.  If
> not, adapt.  Anyway, having said that, previous xterm definitions had the
> delete key as sending '\177' and, in order to keep compatibility, I changed
> our entry to have '\177' in r1.62 of .../share/termcap/termcap.src.  Diff
> appended.

Which as far as I can tell is then completely ignored by xterm, so you still
end up needing to use said DeleteIsDEL option.. (Happy to be told otherwise!)

Cheers,

Patrick