From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: simple editor required Date: 16 Jun 2003 09:48:49 -0400 Organization: Yale University Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5lu1aqcev2.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <8465nduadj.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <5lfzmgbrio.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <84el1zcze6.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <841xxzto54.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055773250 18340 80.91.224.249 (16 Jun 2003 14:20:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:20:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 16 16:20:39 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Rub9-0003MV-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:04:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Rucf-0005Qo-NA for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:06:13 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!news.wss.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu Original-X-Trace: news.wss.yale.edu 1055771333 6735 128.36.229.169 (16 Jun 2003 13:48:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.wss.yale.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:48:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu X-Original-Trace: 16 Jun 2003 09:48:49 -0400, rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114483 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10974 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10974 >> (define-key emacs-lisp-mode-map (kbd "DEL") 'delete-char) > AND THE WINNER IS!!! :-) Actually, I think the best answer for you is (define-key function-key-map "\C-?" "\C-d") > Xemacs. I would have thought this situation would have > come up all the time for the presumably large number of > people who want that behaviour of DEL doing a delete-char. DEL is for backward deletion, so the number of people who want to use it for forward deletion is rather small. If your `delete' key sends a DEL, then the best answer is generally to fix the thing that makes it work that way (typically, the console or the text-terminal) so that it sends some other key sequence. Stefan