Upgraded to 21.1 and backspace no longer works

Upgraded to 21.1 and backspace no longer works

[J. E. Lewis]

Backspace no longer works the same after upgrading from version 20 to
version 21.  It works as a delete-char as opposed to
delete-backward-char.  Nothing else changed in my environment, and if
I hit C-h it does a delete-backward-char.

-- 
Jim Lewis (a.k.a. Louie)
____louie_AT_louie__DOT__cc____

Re: Upgraded to 21.1 and backspace no longer works

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:19:40 -0500
> From: "J. E. Lewis" <louie@louie.cc>
> 
> Backspace no longer works the same after upgrading from version 20 to
> version 21.  It works as a delete-char as opposed to
> delete-backward-char.

Try this:

    M-x normal-erase-is-backspace-mode RET

Did that help?

Re: Upgraded to 21.1 and backspace no longer works

[J. E. Lewis]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:40:31PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Backspace no longer works the same after upgrading from version 20 to
> > version 21.  It works as a delete-char as opposed to
> > delete-backward-char.
> 
> Try this:
> 
>     M-x normal-erase-is-backspace-mode RET
> 
> Did that help?

Yes that fixed it. But I wonder what changed, to stop it from working
in 21 when it worked the way I expected it to in 20.

In my .emacs do I need to say something like:
(setq normal-erase-is-backspace-mode t)

-- 
Jim Lewis
__louie__AT__louie_DOT_cc_____

Re: Upgraded to 21.1 and backspace no longer works

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:16:25 -0500
> From: "J. E. Lewis" <louie@louie.cc>
> > 
> >     M-x normal-erase-is-backspace-mode RET
> > 
> > Did that help?
> 
> Yes that fixed it. But I wonder what changed, to stop it from working
> in 21 when it worked the way I expected it to in 20.

Emacs 21 now tries to detect those systems where there's both a
Backspace and Delete key, and assigns both to different functions.  In
your case, it seems it failed to do that correctly.