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From: lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
Subject: Re: backspace/del/C-h confusion between emacs -nw & emacs X11
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 02:46:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <?fnord?87wugmfkz0.fsf@ID-97657.usr.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8a65o676e5.fsf@sm.intel.com

Balaji Venkataraman wrote:

> I'm sure this is an oft repeated question, but I still haven't found a fool
> proof solution yet. I'm not a novice user, so I'd appreciate it if you read
> the whole mail, before replying.

> This is with Emacs (21.1.2) on Solaris.

> In short I want the <Backspace> and "C-h" to behave similarly whether I run
> "emacs -q" or "emacs -nw -q". I want the <Backspace> key to delete the
> previous char and "C-h" to give me the help menu - this is what happens when
> you run "emacs -q". But with "-nw", both those keys seem to be tied to the
> same thing. Changing one (with keyboard translate) changes the other.

Does adding (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 1) to your ~/.emacs
(or doing M-x normal-erase-is-backspace-mode RET) help at all?

Also, what does stty -a tell you about the value of "erase", for
me, backspace generates ^? in an xterm.

-- 
lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li>

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-20  1:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-20  1:29 backspace/del/C-h confusion between emacs -nw & emacs X11 Balaji Venkataraman
2003-05-20  1:46 ` lawrence mitchell [this message]
2003-05-20 12:25 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-20 19:27   ` Balaji Venkataraman
2003-05-21  6:06     ` Klaus Zeitler
2003-05-22  8:54     ` Kai Großjohann

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