From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10616 invoked by alias); 10 Sep 2012 05:54:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 10606 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Sep 2012 05:54:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ey0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-ey0-f171.google.com) (209.85.215.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:54:29 +0000 Received: by eaah11 with SMTP id h11so633729eaa.2 for ; Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:54:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.211.3 with SMTP id v3mr17669497eeo.43.1347256468281; Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:54:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.2.6 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 22:54:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: xterm problem with Delete key From: Keith Thompson To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Keith Thompson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-09/txt/msg00124.txt.bz2 On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Keith Thompson wrote: > I'm using Cygwin on Windows 7 Ultimate on a Dell laptop. I use > Cygwin's xterm version 281-1. "xrdb -q" shows, among other things, > "XTerm*deleteIsDEL: True". > > The problem: The "Delete" key on my keyboard sends the sequence > > Escape [ 3 ~ > > rather than the DEL character. (When I run a bash shell in xterm, > and type Control-V DEL, it prints "^[[3~".) > > In the Main Options menu (control left mouse click), the "Delete is > DEL" option is checked. Toggling it has no effect. > > It originally worked correctly, but started misbehaving like this a > while ago (a few weeks maybe?). It's likely that I upgraded my xterm > using setup.exe around the time it started misbehaving, but I didn't > keep close enough track. > > I don't have this problem with rxvt. > > On the other hand, when I run the xterm command on my Ubuntu 12.04 > system on the same display, using X forwarding over ssh, it behaves > correctly; Control-V DEL prints "^?". The Ubuntu system has xterm > version 271-1ubuntu2. I just used setup.exe to downgrade my xterm from 281-1 to 279-1, and it corrected the problem. So it looks like a regression. -- Keith Thompson -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple