how to tame an HFT keyboard and AIXTERM

[Benson I. Margulies]

I bet this is old news, but I just discovered the following:

in .xinitrc:

   xmodmap -e "keysym BackSpace = Delete"

in .Xdefaults or an xrdb source:

*aixterm.translations: <Key>Delete: string(0x7f)
aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^?

The result is that the backspace key works as Delete for gnu
emacs and also as erase in the shell.

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Benson I. Margulies