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.
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