Re: [rdesktop-devel] Problem with delete key and notepad

[Mark H. W. <mh...@am...>]

On 30 Jun 2003, David Richards wrote:
> Backspace in a DEC keyboard is a DELETE on all other platforms.

Hrm, it's very important to get our terms right here.  The LK201 keyboard
has no key labelled "delete".  There's the pad-Remove key (on the editing
keypad) which generates some escape sequence that causes VMS to delete the
character *following* the cursor.  There's CTRL-H, of course, which
generates BS, which causes VMS to move the cursor back one space and
deletes nothing.  There's the key at the upper right of the main key
cluster (where the "backspace" key is on a PC-10x board) which is marked
with a single glyph looking something like "<X|", generates DEL (0x177,
Delete/Rubout), and which causes VMS to delete the character under the
cursor and then move the cursor back one space.  There's F12, also
labelled "(BS)", which some software treats as some sort of backspace, but
I never used it enough to learn precisely how it functions; it generates
the (DEC-)standard F12 escape sequence.

There are layers of stuff going on here, and you have to keep them
straight or you'll get a muddle.  (I should know:  I have an xmodmap that
attempts to make a PC104 keyboard act like an LK201, and while I have
gotten used to its quirks it would really confuse anybody who has used
*either* of those keyboards straight. :-)

> Try using control-h for a backspace.

Assuming that BS does what you want done.  See the difficulty?

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