From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rabbe Fogelholm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Problem with interpretation of <-Backspace key in version 21.2.1 Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 17:55:46 +0200 Organization: Telenordia/Algonet Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3CAF1A82.95DB4430@era-t.ericsson.se> Reply-To: eubrafo@operamail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018108632 8365 127.0.0.1 (6 Apr 2002 15:57:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 15:57:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16tsYx-0002Ao-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 17:57:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tsYt-0006cu-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 10:57:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailbox4.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.56]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tsXf-0006aZ-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 10:55:51 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.tninet.se (lennier.tninet.se [195.100.94.105]) by mailbox4.ucsd.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g36FtnTB008256 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 07:55:49 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from green.tninet.se (green.tninet.se [195.100.94.182]) by lennier.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 506751.108548.1018.0s18932631lennier for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 17:55:48 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 16932 invoked by uid 14355); 6 Apr 2002 15:56:16 -0000 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: bb-62-5-42-224.bb.tninet.se Original-X-Trace: green.tninet.se 1018108575 16922 62.5.42.224 (6 Apr 2002 15:56:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@algonet.se Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 15:56:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-31 i686) X-Accept-Language: en Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:452 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:452 When using Emacs (and other programs) from a PC keyboard I am used to thinking of the "<-Backspace" key as the key that erases the character to the left of the cursor. (To avoid any confusion: I mean the rightmost key in the 0123 row, typically placed just above the Enter key). In Emacs 20.7.1 the <-Backspace key does the right thing. In Emacs 21.2.1 this has changed--the character to the right of the cursor is deleted. By doing M-X describe-key I get the following: 20.7.1 says "DEL runs the command backward-delete-char-untabify" 21.2.1 says "C-d runs the command delete-char" My setup might be important. The PC runs Red Hat Linux 7.1 and KDE. In that environment I run an xterm (version XFree86 4.0.3(156)). From the xterm session I do an ssh login to a Solaris/SPARC machine that starts a login shell which is 6.10.00 (Astron). From the tcsh prompt I start Emacs with the -nw option. (If I leave out the -nw option Emacs will run in its own window on the KDE desktop, and in that case Emacs does the right thing with the "<-Backspace" key regardless of whether it is Emacs 20.7.1.or 21.2.1, so the problem seems to be confined to the emacs -nw invocation.) --Rabbe Fogelholm, Stockholm, Sweden