backspace and delete keys behavior

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 04:01:53 -0500
"Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:

> Mariano Guadagnini wrote:
> 
> >Hi guys, I am new to Freebsd (after years of linux) and, althought system 
> >installation and configuration was quite seamlessly, I've an issue with the 
> >delete key of my keyboard (101 keys us layout): In xterm, the backspace key 
> >works ok, but when I press del, it prints the "~" character, instead of  
> >deleting .  I have read it has something to do with keyboard layout config, 
> >but I couldn't find out how to fix it. So, any ideas?
> >
> >Thanks, (and forgive my poor english)
> >
> >
> >Mariano Guadagnini
> >Argentina
> >  
> >
> 
> what does:
> 
>  >echo $TERM
> 
>     give you?
> 
> It could possibly be the wrong terminal type --- try the following
> at the CLI (depending on which shell)...
> 
> csh/tcsh:
> 
>     $setenv TERM xterm-color

itetcu at it> /home/itetcu/.dc [12:26:07] 0
 % echo $TERM
xterm
itetcu at it> /home/itetcu/.dc [12:58:58] 0 
% setenv TERM xterm-color
itetcu at it> /home/itetcu/.dc [12:59:11] 0
 % echo $TERM
xterm-color
itetcu at it> /home/itetcu/.dc [12:59:15] 0
 % das~~~~das

Where the ~ are made by pressing delete.



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