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. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.