On: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:58:26 +0000 (UTC), Beartooth
<Beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 May 2009 12:49:43 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
>
>> I have the following gnome terminal profile settings:
>>
>> Backspace = ASCII DEL
>> Delete Key = Escape Sequence
> [....]
>> I am fairly confident that the delete key worked in the same
>> fashion for my usual user id up until quite recently. Does
>> anyone know of why or how this behaviour could differ between
>> two separate users in the same terminal window?
>
> I have my gnome-terminal (under Fedora, not CentOS) set to
> Control-H and Escape Sequence; that works fine for all users here,
> and does what I'm guessing you want.
>
That setting does not change the observed behaviour. If I su -l
then the Escape Sequence DEL removes the character under the cursor
and left shifts the line. If I am not the superuser, even in
exactly the same gnome terminal window instance, then the DEL has no
evident effect.
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