pico delete problems

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thebwit

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For some strange reason whenever I use pico to edit a document and hit the delete key it does what function-delete does. Instead of going backwards from the cursor, it brings stuff in front of it closer. This is really annoying as it just started to do this. If you are confused by what I am saying, here is a clearer picture.

If I was on a windows machine I have two options to delete something (backspace and del). Backspace is what should be happening when I pico something, but del is what is happening.

I hope I made this clear. Please help me out as this is driving me crazy since I code a lot through the terminal.
 
What you're experiencing is Forward Delete.
I would rephrase what Sam said like this: does it happen only in the Terminal (shell), or all over OS X? Since I think from what you said it's only in pico and/or the Terminal, you might try either trashing the Terminal prefs, or going to File --> Window Settings --> Keyboard in the terminal and checking the key mappings
 
This only happens in pico. While in the terminal I get a normal delete. While in Word or notpad, or anywhere else I get a normal delete. It seems to only be in pico. I went into the settings and it is now fixed. Thanks.
 
I opened terminal, then went terminal->window settings ->Keyboard (drop down menu) and checked delete key sends backspace.
 
Oh, wouldn't that have meant that it was doing that for all things in the terminal, not just pico?

(BTW, that was what I suggested :D)
 
It was weird becuase it only happened in pico. I never tried vi or emacs, but just at the terminal it was fine. Very weird.
 
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