In article <G7HzvI.37t@tac.nyc.ny.us>,
Christos Zoulas <christos@tac.gw.com> wrote:
>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.

hi christos-

    how do you figure that?   the behavior i am seeing happens before
i even start X (e.g. hit the delete key at the single user prompt).   
i was thinking the problem is in wsconsole?

chuck


>>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