From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: no spam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: keymap problem Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:32:24 GMT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com Message-ID: <423DDDCE.8040908@yahoo.com> References: <348%d.20410$Pz7.15394@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com> <423DB701.7070408@yahoo.com> <423DD1AF.2020707@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111350786 2261 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2005 20:33:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:33:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 21:33:05 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD76S-0001Nq-Kr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:32:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD7NQ-0000R0-0D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:50:24 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr21.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!20ac0f33!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.225.161.157 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: newssvr21.news.prodigy.com 1111350744 ST000 69.225.161.157 (Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:32:24 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:32:24 EST X-UserInfo1: OH\[R[SDQJVAW]IRV@CBNWX@RJ_XPDLMN@GZ_GYO^ZWZUYICD^RAQBKZQTZTX\_I[^G_KGFNON[ZOE_AZNVO^\XGGNTCIRPIJH[@RQKBXLRZ@CD^HKANYVW@RLGEZEJN@\_WZJBNZYYKVIOR]T]MNMG_Z[YVWSCH_Q[GPC_A@CARQVXDSDA^M]@DRVUM@RBM Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129498 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25051 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25051 (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode -1) did it! Thanks so much. Joe Corneli wrote: > 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. > > Sounds bad. Have you tried putting > > (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 1) > > or > > (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode -1) > > in your .emacs? That might do what you want, or at least get you part > way there. > > 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? > > If `normal-erase-is-backspace-mode' doesn't do everything you need, > look at its code and see what you can do using the syntax for > remappings given there (but in your global keymap). > >