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From: gezelter@magnesium.cchem.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter; Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: d-d-d-did you say d-d-d-delete?
Summary: I want a delete key that understands me.
Keywords: delete xedit L10
Message-ID: <1991May12.191234.20025@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 12 May 91 19:12:34 GMT
Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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So I want to remap my L10 key on my Sun 3/50 to delete selected text in xedit.
Fine.  What I've done so far is to include the following lines in my
.Xdefaults file:

Xedit*messageWindow.scrollVertical: Always
Xedit*editWindow.scrollVertical:    Always
Xedit*editWindow.Translations:      #override \
          <Key>L8: insert-selection(PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
          <Key>L10: delete-selection()

which seems to work fine, as long as I'm not deleting text at the very end of
a file.  When I do that, xedit seems to be uninformed that there is no longer
any text where it thinks the cursor is, and all hell breaks loose, leaving a
messy segmentation fault all over the floor.  Bad xedit, bad xedit. How do I
prevent this from crashing so ungracefully?

If you can answer that, then maybe you can address my wish list regarding
delete thangs in general:

  What I really want is a delete key that, when pressed:
     1) if I have any text selected, deletes that text and puts the cursor
        where that text used to be,
     2) if I don't have any text selected, deletes the character immediately
        to the left of where I have the cursor now, and
     3) doesn't crash the editor.

Thanks in advance for your help.

            Via con carne,
                 --Dan

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