From: Bernardo <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs in console mode -- DELETE key misbehavior
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:47:48 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A73D704.1030108@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p5CdncN9t951lO7XnZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d@giganews.com>
> I use Ubuntu Jaunty Linux.
>
> My problem is that when I run emacs -nw, my BACKSPACE key somehow is
> mapped to C-d and deletes forward. This is NOT what I want -- I want
> it to delete backward like regular C-d.
>
> I did run emacs without any custom .emacs file, and still had this
> problem.
>
> When I do describe-key <ENTER> and then his BACKSPACE, I get:
>
> C-d runs the command delete-char
> which is an interactive built-in function in `C source code'.
> It is bound to C-d, <deletechar>.
> (delete-char N &optional KILLFLAG)
>
> I did note that if I say in command line:
>
> stty erase C-v BACKSPACE
>
> then BACKSPACE works as I want, but I would like to see if I can do it
> in emacs only.
>
> i
>
does this do what you want?
(global-set-key [backspace] 'backward-delete-char)
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2009-07-31 15:12 GNU Emacs in console mode -- DELETE key misbehavior Ignoramus21205
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