Re: Backspace direction reversion

J> The problem is: You keyboard seems to be very exceptional so you need J> to give better bug reports and help a bit to find a better heuristic. J> So J> a. how DO you generate 'backspace' on your keyboard? J> b. On my keyboard (Sun-5) and a nearby Linux machine 'xev' says that J> the Delete key has an empty Xlookupstring, whereas backspace has J> an "^H". I am assuming that on your keyboard the 'delete' keysym J> generates some ascii rubout stuff (either ^? or C-h). Could you J> chekc with xev? J> Then we can do something like Are you sure about the strings sent by your xev?? Run xev from an XEmacs shell buffer to make sure you're not losing characters. I think the ASCII equivalents are courtesy of Xlib, not of the keyboard itself. The Happy Hacking keyboard generates "^?" for Delete, "^H" for BackSpace. I don't see how that helps us identify it. Martin