From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21.3.1 -nw over ssh, C-h not bringing up help Date: 20 Mar 2005 12:14:15 -0600 Organization: _ Message-ID: <84ekeaw5fs.fsf@ripco.com> References: <84hdj7crf0.fsf@ripco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111342377 12672 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2005 18:12:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 19:12:57 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD4uy-00017k-FS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:12:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD5Bu-0007Zw-Kf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:30:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!gail.ripco.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: shell2.ripco.com Original-X-Trace: e250.ripco.com 1111342452 22801 209.100.225.144 (20 Mar 2005 18:14:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ripco.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:14:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129494 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25048 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25048 Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 19.03.2005 um 21:27 schrieb Todd H.: > > > pressing C-h now deletes left of the cursor > > This is what I have in my xterm in Mac OS X too. The cure is to put in > your shell's rc file something like > > stty erase '^?' > > You can check the shell's settings with 'stty -a' and correct the > setting of erase from ^H to ^?, which is delete. (You too could > consult 'normal-erase-is-backspace' in you Emacs ...) Hi Pete, Thanks for the response. I had tried mucking with the shell settings for erase and it didn't seem to help unfortunately. Seems there's something new and odd in either Debian or Emacs 21.x that was thwarting my efforts. However, dropping (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 0) into .emacs (or running that function interactively with M-x normal-erase-is-backspace was the magic bullet for me (along with setting my SecureCRT profile mapped keys for "backspace sends delete." With those two steps, things are back to the way I was used to under the RedHat box and Emacs 20.6.1. Best Regards, -- Todd H. http://www.toddh.net/