26 Jul
2002
26 Jul
'02
4:49 p.m.
Please save from tearing out what little hair I have left!
I'm trying to make a Debian (woody) installation let me delete the previous word in an xterm (using tcsh) by typing meta-backspace, i.e. just like the Emacs keystroke. But it's not playing ball. It's actually pretty weird as I've never had this trouble under RedHat or SuSE (or SunOS, come to that).
Relevant information:
o xrdb -query reports (among other things)
xterm.eightBitInput: true
o I have no bindkey commands in my .cshrc and no ~/.tcshrc file
o A short Tk script shows that backspace generates keycode 22
I thought I'd just need to say
bindkey "M-^H" backward-delete-word
in my .cshrc but that doesn't work. Any suggestions?
..Adrian
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