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From: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: how to tame an HFT keyboard and AIXTERM
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.003830.29706@odi.com>
Date: 28 Jun 91 00:38:30 GMT
Organization: Object Design, Inc.
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I bet this is old news, but I just discovered the following:

in .xinitrc:

   xmodmap -e "keysym BackSpace = Delete"

in .Xdefaults or an xrdb source:

*aixterm.translations: <Key>Delete: string(0x7f)
aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^?

The result is that the backspace key works as Delete for gnu
emacs and also as erase in the shell.

-- 
Benson I. Margulies