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Why does the DELETE key delete forward instead of backward?

April 26, 2017backward delete forward key

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Why does the DELETE key delete forward instead of backward?

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See the SET TERMINAL/BACKSPACE command on OpenVMS V8.2 and later. This behaviour involves the Motif virtual key bindings. When a Motif application starts, it looks at the vendor string returned in the display connection information and attempts to match the string to a table of virtual bindings. You can override the default bindings in your decw$xdefaults.dat file. Here is the entry you would make to get the default VMS bindings.