Jed editor and delete key

tw001_tw · 01-31-2005, 10:10 PM

Am I the only one who's delete key does not work in the Jed editor?
This has been a long standing and only mildly annoying issue - but its time to resolve it.

In doing research before posting, apparently, some have trouble with the backspace
key and the tab key. Those work fine for me. I should also say that all the keys work
just fine outside of jed at the command line. And the only key inside of jed that has an
issue is the delete.

Since everything is fine, I DO NOT want to make any global changes as I don't want
to make matters worse.

Anyone have this problem too and/or a solution?
I'm using jed-0.99.17 - I upgraded in hopes it would be resolved, but no luck.

-tw
[edited]
Getting there. using xev, here is my delete key info.

Code:

KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x58, subw 0x0, time 9836814, (387,746), root:(1416,767),
    state 0x10, keycode 107 (keysym 0xffff, Delete), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7f) ""

Apparently, I have to edit(make) a .jedrc file. Still missing 1 variable.
map_input (107, X)
#I think..

draxen · 02-01-2005, 08:22 AM

Maybe you know all that already, but since you haven't mentioned it in your post, here it is....
Delete and backspace is the general problem with terminal emulators.
Sometimes it can be fixed by setting "stty erase" to either one.
To use delete as erase key: "stty erase ^?"
To use backspace as erase key: "stty erase ^H"

tw001_tw · 02-01-2005, 12:36 PM

In doing research in the matter, I did read things like this as you metioned:

Quote:

To use delete as erase key: "stty erase ^?"
To use backspace as erase key: "stty erase ^H"

But I don't want to change anything globally as both my backspace and delete key work perfectly (i.e. as expected) everywhere else. Only in Jed do I have a problem.

I thought about trying it, but if it doesn't work, I don't know how to revert back to what is is now. But thanks for the suggestion.

-tw

draxen · 02-01-2005, 12:43 PM

Just running "stty" should print your current settings.
Besides that, did you try changing .jedrc?
setkey("delete_char_cmd", "^H");
or
setkey("delete_char_cmd", "^?");
might work.

tw001_tw · 02-01-2005, 10:29 PM

Thank you. You put me on the right path to resolving it.

in my ~/.jedrc file, I had to add the line:

setkey ("delete_char_cmd", "\e[3~");

A jed manual said add 2 lines, but using both of them didn't help.
Using just this one did the trick.
Thanks again.
-tw