[Re: Tk Text Widget Question]
Quote:
> >Well I expected the backspace key to work in the text widget the same way it
> >does in my xterm, as a backspace key!
> If you know or can find out what and how you configured in your xterm to make
> it treat KeySym 'Delete' as backspace let me know.
> I suspect that you just set or get lucky with the 'erase' character
> set on tty associated with the xterm.
What we ended up doing was to turn off "Backspace sends delete" in the Reflection
X configuration (this causes the backspace to act as a delete in xterm). Then we
specified erase to equal backspace with the stty command in .profile. stty now
reports that erase is '^H'.
Quote:
> Now xemacs is more of a surprise...
> >We have solved the problem internally.
> If it was me I would arrange to have X startup xmodmap the keyboard
> the way it looks ;-) Tk may be 1st application that behaves this way
> but it will not be the last. What does a Motif app like NetScape do ?
> or a CDE app ?
Netscape would interrupt the backspace as a delete, I rarely use Netscape on
Solaris so I had forgotten about that behavior.
I'll definitely investigate this X startup suggestion! I have some new Unix
users who get upset rather quickly when things don't work as they expect them to.
Regards,
--
Doug Lewis
Programmer/Analyst
Photronics, Inc.
Phone: 972-889-6262
Fax: 972-889-6339
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