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From: gildea@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Backspace Key for Xterm??
Message-ID: <9010160053.AA10772@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 90 00:55:11 GMT
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    I like to find out how to configure Xterm to use the Delete or Backspace
    correctly when connecting to a VAX system....

You are not very specific about what the problem is, what you have
tried, or what behavior you want.  You do say you are connecting from
an HP to a Vax, so I'm assuming that you want to use the Backspace key
as Delete, since HP terminals have the Delete key in a very awkward
place.

The simplest fix for the HP keyboard is to use xmodmap to have
Backspace always send the Delete keysym:

keysym BackSpace = Delete


If you want something more specific for your xterms that are connected
to a Vax, you can give them a unique name (in the resource manager
sense) and use a translation resource:

xterm-vax*VT100*Translations: #override<Key>BackSpace: string("\177")


 < Stephen				Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
   gildea@bbn.com			Cambridge, Massachusetts

      Tell me, who was it you left me for?  Was it Laszlo, or were
      there others in between?  Or aren't you the kind that tells?