benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) (06/28/91)
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. -- Benson I. Margulies