From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: simple editor required Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:32:12 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <8465n1983n.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> 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> <5lvfv4bsep.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <%BWHa.584$H5.7401@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <84vfv3y9ha.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 1056051404 26242 80.91.224.249 (19 Jun 2003 19:36:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:36:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 19 21:36:39 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 19T5D4-0006oU-00 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:36:38 +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 19T5CW-0002rx-1m for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:36:04 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p50877823.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50877823.dip.t-dialin.net (80.135.120.35) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1056051170 21808040 80.135.120.35 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZNGEqh5oudrkENJJ396+SofhXyQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114593 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:11085 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11085 "Paul Edwards" writes: > Ok, it is the key I am pressing then (near ). > But when Emacs is reporting DEL, it doesn't mean it just > saw ascii 127, it means it saw a backspace (C-h). Huh? What does C-h l say after you hit whatever key it is that Emacs reports as DEL? (Is Emacs reporting DEL when you hit ?) It is possible that normal-erase-is-backspace has an influence, here, and that it is set to the wrong value in your Emacs. (The variable normal-erase-is-backspace should not be set via setq, if you want to use Lisp, use the function normal-erase-is-backspace-mode.) > Incidentally, people are always referring to "press C-h then xxx", > but of course I have remapped C-h to be backspace, I mean, C-h is > backspace, and we all know what backspace does. So I duly replace > C-h with Esc x help. It seems a very surprising key binding to me. Whee. Does work as a help key? Maybe it's the normal-erase-is-backspace thing. If not, then I'm flabbergasted. -- This line is not blank.