On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Keith Thompson <keithsthomp...@gmail.com> 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 <keith.s.thomp...@gmail.com> -- 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
