Delete key and two-button mouse on Linux

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Mon Feb 19 00:39:44 UTC 2001


On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

>        IMHO the "big fat key at the top right corner of the main
>        block" should always behave as backwards-delete, and therefore
>        send charcode 8 == ^H.
> I am in complete agreement with you that the big fat key at the top
> right corner of the main block should always behave as backwards delete.
>
> What matters is that the key labelled Delete on my Mac keyboard, Back
> Space on my Sun keyboard, and Backspace on my PC keyboard should
> delete the character on the left of the text insertion point

AFAICT it does so in all Squeak implementations. I know for sure it does
so in X. 

> and that the documentation should not use the wrong name for the key.

I have no strong opinion about that ;^)

> I strongly suggest that the UNIX VM should take a peek at the user's
> stty settings.  If it's "stty erase '^H'" then whatever key(s) send BS
> should act as leftward delete (and DEL can be rightward delete).  If
> it's "stty erase '^?'" then whatever key(s) send DEL should act as
> leftward delete (and BS can be rightward delete).

I don't see why that should be necessary. It's somewhat funny to look at
stty settings in an X program, isn't it? Why wouldn't a Squeak preference
be sufficient?

-- Bert






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