Re: inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm

[Dale Hagglund]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> Dale Hagglund <rdh@yottayotta.com> writes:

>> Also, is there any reason why `ESC [ 3 ~' shouldn't be mapped to
>> <delete> instead of <deletechar>.

[I'm not quite what part of my message your response referred to, but
I'm assuming it's to the sentence above.]

> This is a property of the terminal description.  For xterm it
> contains `kdch1=\E[3~' (terminfo) or `kD=\E[3~' (termcap), thus `ESC
> [ 3 ~' is mapped to <deletechar>.

I poked around a bit in term/*.el but I didn't see where the termcap
interpretation is happening.  That aside, wouldn't it still be better
to use the generate the same <delete> function key for for the same
physical key both under X and xterm (or a real vt220, for that
matter)?  

Dale.