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Why, in an xterm session under Mac OS X, does the delete key return the cursor to the beginning of the line instead of deleting the character to the left?

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Why, in an xterm session under Mac OS X, does the delete key return the cursor to the beginning of the line instead of deleting the character to the left?

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You could control-click in the xterm window and unselect “Backarrow Key BS/DEL” in the popup menu, but you will have to do this for every window. Better to add the following to your .Xdefaults file on the Mac.

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