(June 2001)  This documents how to get your delete and backspace
keys working correctly under X by configuring it correctly.
There are many FAQs out there that tell you to do stupid things
like swap your Delete and BackSpace keysyms or alter your stty
erase character. Ignore them all.  Delete sequences  There are
three character sequences for deleting characters:  character
aka meaning ^H Ctrl-H aka C-h aka ASCII 8 aka Backspace delete
left ^? Ctrl-? aka C-? aka ASCII 127 aka Delete delete left or
right ESC [ 3 ~ VT 220 remove delete right  The transition from
punched tape to CRTs with keyboards resulted in a number of
decisions. One decision was what to use to represent a newline,
and another was what to use to represent a delete.  On a punch
card when you wanted to delete you would have gone left with a
backspace control character (^H) and then punched out the card
with the delete control character (^?). The keyboard only needs
to generate one character for each key, so a choice had to be
made as to which k