Re: keymap problem

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Thanks again.  I can run xmodmap and xev on my laptop, but on the 
university's system, I can't.

  xmodmap -pk
xmodmap:  unable to open display ''

and xev I can't find at all.

Although I haven't tried, I suspect that I'm not going to have much 
luck getting an X session across their firewall AND mine.  Is there some 
other way to do this?



Joe Corneli wrote:
>    which means that backspace has already been mapped to C-d (that's why I 
>    suspected this required some sort of keymap wizardry).  While I could 
>    live with C-d and Backspace both meaning delete-backward-char,
>    I'd really rather have C-d continue to mean "delete forward" like it 
>    ought to.
> 
> Hm... you got me there.  It sounds like maybe there's a site file
> being loaded (in which case you can try the command line option
> --no-site-file when you start Emacs, to the annoyance of your
> sysadmins) *or* maybe you've just had some bad luck at the xmodmap
> level if it is your own system.  In any event, you can try changing
> the behavior of the backspace key around using xmodmap (the analogue
> of `global-set-key') and xev (the analogue of the help and command
> history commands I showed you).  See the man pages.
> 
>    2) your syntax doesn't work in my version:  If I try
> 
>    (global-set-key "^d" 'backward-delete-char-untabify)
> 
>    I get an initialization error "Key sequence ^ d uses invalid prefix 
>    characters"
> 
> Did you copy the string from the *Command History* buffer?  You don't
> want an asciicircum and a "d" -- you want the "control d character".
> You can insert this character without going through the
> help/command-history hoops just by pressing C-q C-d.
> 
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