delete key does not work anymore with octave 2.1

On 30-Apr-2005, fred wrote:

| Fred.
| To: bug@xxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: delete doesn't work
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| Bug report for Octave 2.1.69 configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| binding delete-char on delete key via /etc/inputrc does not work
| in octave 2.1 but works fine with octave 2.0 ; delete key acts as
| backspace key.
| 
| Repeat-By:
| ---------
| 
| /etc/inputrc contains following lines :
| "^?": delete-char

I'm unable to reproduce the problem.  I also don't think this would be
a bug in Octave, since Octave does nothing to process inputrc (that is
handled by the readline library).

Do you really have ^? (two characters) in the file, or is it a single
character?

Perhaps a better way to set these characters is to use

    `\b'
          backspace

    `\d'
          delete

(see the readline manual for more details about the inputrc syntax).

Also, what character codes does your backspace key really generate?

Try typing Ctrl-v <backspace-key> in Octave (or Ctrl-q <backspace-key>
in Emacs) and see what it displays (note that something that looks
like ^? might actually be just one character).

jwe



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