On: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:58:26 +0000 (UTC), Beartooth Beartooth@comcast.net wrote:

On Fri, 22 May 2009 12:49:43 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:

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I have the following gnome terminal profile settings:

Backspace  = ASCII DEL
Delete Key = Escape Sequence

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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.