Re: gnome-terminal delete/backspace mess

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

> I personally feel that we should remove the option from the g-t config 
> dialog.  It confuses the hell out of me and I always end up using stty.
> Gnome-Terminal reports itself as being of type "xterm" - shouldn't we send
> whatever keys the XConsortium's xterm sends when you press the delete key?
> Isn't doing it any other way a bug in our terminal emulation? ;-)

The xterm does not send a default value.  Different vendors send
different keys, and this is customizable through an X property.

Miguel