On: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:58:26 +0000 (UTC), Beartooth <Beartooth at comcast.net> 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. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3