Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com> wrote:

Frederick> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Guy Santiglia wrote:

>> Could someone please give me some specifics on how to get
>> the backspace key to delete the character to the left of
>> the cursor instead of the character to the right of the
>> cursor.

Frederick> Try this:

Frederick> xmodmap -e "keycode 0x3B = Delete"

Frederick> or build "xkeycaps" and experiment. :)

Here's another example which I use.

-----
!
! ~/.Xkeymap
!
keysym Delete = BackSpace Delete
-----

I put this into ~/.Xkeymap and call xmodmap from ~/.xinitrc
like below.

xmodmap ${HOME}/.Xkeymap

Then, pressing 'delete' alone generates ^H (backspace), with
shift key ^? (delete).

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