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From: john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: Inconsistant Delete Key
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 08:32:27 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d7dade0.1447291@news.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: tF1f9.216956$eK6.6084328@twister.austin.rr.com

On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:49:13 GMT, "CarlC" <carlc@snowbd.com> wrote:

>John, your question sparked me to do some more testing. The filename does
>make a difference on my delete key. If I "emacs trash", the key works like I
>want it to. If I "cp trash trash.el; emacs trash.el", it does not.
>
>I guess my question should be: How do I make the delete key consistant in
>all modes for 20.7.1? Thanks for your help.
>
>"John McCabe" <john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:3d7c6002.2436493@news.demon.co.uk...
>> On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 15:32:31 GMT, "CarlC" <carlc@snowbd.com> wrote:
>>
>> >This seems to be dependent on the file that I initial open from the
>> >command line.
>>
>> In what way? In other words, are there particular types of file that
>> cause the behaviour to be different?

Try this:

(global-set-key [delete] "\C-d")

I've just noticed that's what I use, and I seem to recall that the
reason I changed this from 'delete-char was due to a similar issue to
what you describe.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-10  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-06 15:32 Inconsistant Delete Key CarlC
2002-09-09  8:47 ` John McCabe
2002-09-09 13:49   ` CarlC
2002-09-09 16:30     ` John McCabe
2002-09-10  8:32     ` John McCabe [this message]
2002-09-10 21:43       ` CarlC
2002-09-10  9:03     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-10 21:32       ` CarlC
2002-09-11  8:26         ` John McCabe
2002-09-11 12:46           ` CarlC
2002-09-12 15:01         ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-13 20:09           ` CarlC
2002-09-13 21:47             ` Kai Großjohann

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