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http://www.pobox.com/~aturner/RedHat-FAQ/DOCS/xwin1.txt

- -Aaron Turner
RedHat User's FAQ Maintainer

On Wed, 27 May 1998, George Lenzer wrote:

> I am sure there is a simple answer to this question... I just haven't found it 
> yet.  When I run Netscape or when I am at the shell (bash), I have found that 
> Backspace and Delete work in different ways.  For instance, if I want to 
> correct a typo in a URL under Netscape, I have to use the mouse or the back 
> arrow key to place the cursor before the error then use Backspace or Delete to 
> 'delete' the error and retype.  If I try to use backspace to work my way back 
> and delete the error simultaneously, Backspace just acts like the delete key 
> and gets rid of everything to the right of the cursor.  Is there a config file 
> I should edit somewhere to control the default behaviour of Backspace? 
>  Similarly, at a shell if I try to use the Delete key to delete characters to 
> the right of the cursor, I just get a beep and a tilde is typed at the cursor. 
>  Once, again I assume that this is in a config file???  (slap me if I'm wrong)
> 
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