Linux Backspace/Delete mini-HOWTO

Sebastiano Vigna

vigna@acm.org

Revision History
Revision v1.619 Jan 2002
Included many comments from Alex Boldt and Chung-Rui Kao.
Revision v1.53 May 2000
Updated for new distros and the tput trick.
Revision v1.47 December 2000
Updated for Red Hat 7.0 and Helix Gnome conflicts.
Revision v1.318 October 2000
Name change.
Revision v1.215 October 2000
Updated. Added "What If Nothing Works" section.
Revision v1.113 September 2000
Added tcsh fixes
Revision v1.05 September 2000
First release

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. How Keys Are Turned Into Actions
3. Why It Doesn't (Always) Work
4. X
5. What You Should Do When Writing Applications
6. What You Should Do On Your System
6.1. What Needs to Be Done
6.2. How to Do It
6.3. Fixing for tcsh
7. What If Nothing Works
8. More Hacking
9. Conclusions