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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Henner,

In EESCHEMA, under Preferences->Hotkeys->Edit Hotkeys, you can edit
the hotkeys and set Backspace as the Delete function.

However, I notice that changing the Delete function hotkey doesn't
work. This in fact should be filed as a bug; So please file a bug
report on Launchpad so it can be fixed, or else feel free to apply a
patch that fixes this bug instead. The best method is to file a bug
report on launchpad and issue a patch to fix it at the same time, but
at least if there's a bug report someone else can maybe fix it before
you get around to it.

Thank-you for highlighting the issue.

Best Regards,

Brian.

On 5 February 2014 05:02, Henner Zeller <h.zeller@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> My notebook has a keyboard that doesn't have a 'Delete' key, only
> 'Backspace'. This makes deleting objects in eeschema quite cumbersome as
> this always requires to use the right-mouse button menu.
>
> Since 'Backspace' is not bound to anything in eeschema, this patch adds the
> Backspace key to be equivalent to the Delete key: removing the object under
> the cursor.
>
> View patch here:
> https://github.com/hzeller/kicad/compare/master...delete-and-backspace-equiv
>
> Download patch here:
> https://github.com/hzeller/kicad/compare/master...delete-and-backspace-equiv.patch
>
> Since I am new to this codebase, I am not sure if this is the right way to
> add another hotkey or if there is better way to get this same functionality.
> If everything is ok, then I'd be happy to see this added to upstream.
>
> Thanks,
>   -henner
>
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