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: 17 Jun 2003 12:06:06 -0400 Organization: Yale University Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5lvfv4bsep.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> <5lu1aqcev2.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055869619 16210 80.91.224.249 (17 Jun 2003 17:06:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:06:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 17 19:06:57 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 19SJv6-0004DF-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:06:57 +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 19SJtk-00030V-1k for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:05:32 -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: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu Original-X-Trace: news.wss.yale.edu 1055865970 17861 128.36.229.169 (17 Jun 2003 16:06:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.wss.yale.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:06:10 +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: 17 Jun 2003 12:06:06 -0400, rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114519 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:11010 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11010 > (define-key function-key-map "\C-?" "\C-d") > after commenting out the thing that actually works, the > above doesn't do anything, ie DEL is still backspace. I think you're right. My brain is still full of crap. The mapping is ignored because there's a binding for ?\C-?, so you'd want to use key-translation-map instead: (define-key key-translation-map "\C-?" "\C-d") As I said, it's probably better to fix your text-terminal to send another key sequence than DEL. Stefan