From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: YSK Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: redefine C-h Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6c2a4df0-eaa7-4617-9cb5-94f0ca4bd888@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218232614 4846 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2008 21:56:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 21:56:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 08 23:57:45 2008 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 1KRZxw-0002Yv-8z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:57:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43189 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRZx0-00074Q-Pl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:56:46 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.121.149.235 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1218215593 8712 127.0.0.1 (8 Aug 2008 17:13:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:13:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.121.149.235; posting-account=z6ITewoAAABmlG9vONzLvdFrBL9rvvvn User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 (CK-IBM) Firefox/3.0.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160979 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:56:23 -0400 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:56332 Archived-At: C-h is a normally prefix key, but I want to bind 'backward-char- delete' to it. My .emacs has this: (global-unset-key "\C-h") (global-set-key "\C-\M-h" 'help-command) (global-set-key [C-h] 'delete-backward-char) I want to use C-M-h for help-command instead and use C-h for backspace. However...it's not working. C-h remains a prefix key. My understanding of prefix keys is basically nil, so there's probably something pretty basic I'm missing here. Would anyone here be kind enough to clue me in? Thanks.