Mac delete key replacement how to#
Set an environment variable TERMINFO to whatever you used for. Are you worried about deleting sensitive files on an older Mac If your Mac has a regular HDD, learn how to securely erase files so they're unrecoverable. Do everything the same as above except when you get to compiling it, use If it is not defined there, you can make your own copy of it. If it is defined there, you can make your keyboard mapping match the definition there. If you don't control it, you can still do an infocmp and see if kdch1 is defined. If you log onto a remote server, it is the server version of the definition file that matters. In El Capitan, Disk Utility looks slightly different, as you can see below. What Disk Utility looks like in Lion through Yosemite. You probably need admin privilege for the last step so you may have to sudo it. Then proceed to highlight your computers hard drive select the Erase tab, make sure OS X Extended (Journaled) is selected, then hit the Erase button. You can stick it in anywhere, I stuck it in a line with some other keypad definitions like: $ vi termdef.tmp (Going to edit the decompiled version) $ infocmp > termdef.tmp (Decompiles terminfo file for the current term type) Open a Terminal.app and cd to directory with some room to play. Mapping the forward delete key is done with kdch1.
Mac delete key replacement code#
Apparently dch1 is the code to SEND to a terminal to have it forward-delete 1 character on the screen. Some users report that they were able to resolve the issue themselves by cleaning out debris, while. Furthermore, although the vt102 definition does contain a definition for dch1, I discovered that is not the correct capability to define. An Apple Support Communities thread has multiple reports of stuck keys on the 12-inch MacBook. The problem is that the terminfo description of the vt100 which is the default emulation mode for Terminal.app doesn't contain a definition for the forward delete key. In the course of trying to port a curses-depended program I wrote some years ago on a Sys V system to work in Terminal.app, I spent a bunch of hours messing around with the problem and finally solved it.
The problem is that the applications where the forward delete key doesn't work use the Terminfo terminal database and are probably using the curses library that depends on it ads that is the unix toolbag for writing terminal-independent programs.
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