Hi everybody. I'm having a few issues with xterm.

For one, how would I make xterm recognize ALT-Backspace as a delete word sequence? It should do the same thing as CTRL-W or ESC-Backspace.

Also, since I do most of my computer operations with the terminal I want it to look neat. When there are lines wrapping all over the place and columns misarranged and whatnot, it can't look very neat. So to prevent xterm from wrapping I now run `xterm +aw` instead. This doesn't wrap lines anymore but if there is any important data at the end of a line, it is lost. I'd like a solution where there is no wrapping and somthing like a horizontal scrollbar (preferably an invisible one that i can control with keys like with the `less -S` command). That way I don't lose any important output but it remains neat.

Thanks.

xterm shouldn't have anything to do with the editing, but the program you're running (eg. shell).
For horizontal scrollbar, I think you should look for another terminal emulator, there are qiute a few out there. Maybe gnome term, or konsole. And in those you can define keys.

I doubt that lack of ALT+backspace has anything to do with bash or with libreadline since it works with rxvt.

As for the other terminals, they are all very ugly, slow, or ugly and slow. Xterm is nice and small and very fast. That's why I've stuck with it.

Perhaps somebody knows how to redefine ALT+backspace with xmodmap or keysyms or somthing like that?

Thanks.