From: Dale Hagglund <rdh@yottayotta.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, rdh@yottayotta.com
Subject: Re: inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 10:21:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lmfzdmerfe.fsf@dernhelm.edmonton.yottayotta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7137-Sat07Feb2004174147+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 07 Feb 2004 17:41:47 +0200")
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:
> This is wrong: the <delete> key should not be mapped to DEL. It
> should be mapped to C-d, and thus run `delete-char', like it does in
> xterm.
>
> What OS is that? Does it help to experiment with
> normal-erase-is-backspace-mode? . . . . Did you also use the
> --no-site-file switch? If not, can you use it in addition to -q and
> see if that changes anything?
The behaviour is the same with --no-site-file. To give a bit more
information, I'm running my own build of 21.3 with no customizations
under redhat 9 with linux kenel 2.4.20. I just checked the officially
installed emacs, 21.2, and it appears to behave the same way.
When I enable normal-erase-is-backspace-mode, things work as you say.
However, mapping <delete> to C-d still leaves a minor inconsistency
between <delete> and M-<delete>: the former deletes characters
forward, and the still deletes words backwards.
Something else that may be worth mentioning: I'm running all these
emacses inside a vncserver session. I noticed in the description of
normal-erase-is-backspace, it says that it's default setting depends
on the keyboard. Perhaps the vncserver's virtual keyboard isn't quite
responding as emacs expects?
Dale.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-07 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-07 3:35 inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm Dale Hagglund
2004-02-07 14:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-07 17:35 ` Dale Hagglund
2004-02-07 18:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-08 0:32 ` Dale Hagglund
2004-02-08 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-07 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-07 15:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-07 17:27 ` Dale Hagglund
2004-02-07 18:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-07 17:21 ` Dale Hagglund [this message]
2004-02-11 0:13 ` Dale Hagglund
2004-02-11 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-11 10:03 ` Dale Hagglund
[not found] ` <mailman.2052.1076164878.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-07 21:00 ` Thomas Dickey
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