[3712] in testers
Re: 8.2 machine panic and zwrite annoyance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jul 6 12:08:27 1998
To: Heather Anne <aurora@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jul 1998 10:05:22 EDT."
<199807061405.KAA10233@neroon.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 12:08:18 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Oh, right, zwrite.
> Also, while I'm sending mail, when I'm writing a zephyr message
> using simple old zwrite, the backspace key doesn't do what it used
> to. Now I just get a bunch of ^H characters instead of erasing
> text. Is this expected behavior now? It's annoying, and it only
> seems to happen on the Sun's.
The default xterm resources translate the backspace keysym to DEL so
that you get the right erase key. You, however, are one of the lucky
users with your own xterm key translations:
XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override \n\
<KeyPress> Prior: scroll-back(1,halfpage)\n\
<KeyPress> Next: scroll-forw(1,halfpage)
so the Athena translations don't have any effect. You can either
disable your own translation resource or add the translations
~Meta <Key>BackSpace: string(\177) \n\
Meta <Key>BackSpace: string(\033\177) \n\
just after the first line I quoted above.
