From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: saneman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problems with 'd' and 'delete' key Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:29:56 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <480c422d$0$90272$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: <480b5838$0$90267$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <87ve2cwopo.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> <480b6047$0$90263$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <480c4125$0$90272$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208763685 8581 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2008 07:41:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:41:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 09:42:00 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jnqf1-0003QC-9Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:41:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnqeL-0005zC-V2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:41:17 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!hist.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <480c4125$0$90272$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.225.245.182 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=FCS21N\h9hLLCYW^HlPiL@YSB=nbEKnkKTekT_m2IJNJ?aXA8:Q5; kBS9o\hBcjVoOMSgY1MOWN]KWRJl7Q2_\KLa6dY^ZV3SQL Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158075 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53441 Archived-At: > It almost seems to work. But when I press delete it works as backspace > (deleting backward). Is there someway to get the normal delete key > behavior where the cursor don't move but deletes characters in front? > > I think the command is called delete-char but where should it be added? I now get the correct behavior with just these two lines: (define-key global-map [delete] 'delete-char) (global-set-key "\C-d" 'comment-dwim)