In article <20010121000621.G2433174@chips.research.att.com>,
Chuck Cranor <chuck@research.att.com> wrote:

I suspect that is with the new xterm... Just edit the app-defaults/XTerm
file and remove the mappings.

christos

>hi-
>
>    i have noticed that the "delete" key on several of my systems
>seems to send the string "\033[3~" rather than the expected "\177"...
>why?   how can i put it back the way i expect?
>
>    i hadn't noticed it before because the X11 version of emacs was 
>translating the delete key to "\177" but i've been editing from the
>console without X and the problem became clear.
>
>
>chuck
>