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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: Upgraded to 21.1 and backspace no longer works
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 06:26:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8011-Thu06Mar2003062654+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030305131625.B161444@athena.louisville.edu> (louie@louie.cc)

> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:16:25 -0500
> From: "J. E. Lewis" <louie@louie.cc>
> > 
> >     M-x normal-erase-is-backspace-mode RET
> > 
> > Did that help?
> 
> Yes that fixed it. But I wonder what changed, to stop it from working
> in 21 when it worked the way I expected it to in 20.

Emacs 21 now tries to detect those systems where there's both a
Backspace and Delete key, and assigns both to different functions.  In
your case, it seems it failed to do that correctly.

      reply	other threads:[~2003-03-06  4:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-05 16:19 Upgraded to 21.1 and backspace no longer works J. E. Lewis
2003-03-05 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-03-05 18:16   ` J. E. Lewis
2003-03-06  4:26     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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