From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jacob Gerlach Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: DELETE/C-h confusion Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:02:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406509369 24090 80.91.229.3 (28 Jul 2014 01:02:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 01:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Sergey Ivanes Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 28 03:02:44 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XBZKu-0003gU-Ib for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 03:02:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37125 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBZKu-00054U-71 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:02:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54299) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBZKj-00053h-R7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:02:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBZKf-00017d-8x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lb0-x22c.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c04::22c]:33618) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBZKf-00017T-0f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:02:29 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-lb0-f172.google.com with SMTP id z11so5375570lbi.3 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:02:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=QkGezJrpc0/Wsd8DQtlTrfv2HoT9pnGj1+5lL9Gmgtw=; b=n+pQTi2E+RhTeyykuoZhX9ASpI8UwJvio1rJ6pgt5dmVN8l+4Cq5PYxFt9XPSKx8e3 MUNw8BbXSSP1VA11PQRCtw4f4X3+rg7lbIzmGgWQbaoqX191p5zPsZylo6E1ClZriUsm AHXu7Pa/o9+RwGj9aJWY2hqFtNwZPMy0vr1eyA5TSCc79iK8GQue4T5bLcSLknv3EWlT X2r2bNfm7/hYzebb9T9NU3OQX0GXTzxTXB3fMZkVHAfWUykNxCYhZOa0f5upl74Q7KBX bMaPvp3bhOaf28iTauVb3cQAEFWOMoRmCz//Yjc9HlOYDraTofpfk7v3uh1UFiH+Gde1 R1Mg== X-Received: by 10.152.205.35 with SMTP id ld3mr30132014lac.48.1406509347951; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:02:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.2.74 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:02:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c04::22c X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98959 Archived-At: I haven't dealt with this personally, but the wiki seems to have some material that might help: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/BackspaceKey On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Sergey Ivanes wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Going through the tutorial on emacs, I got stuck on the deleting part, > because by default DELETE key sends me to help. I've tried adding a few > commands to the .emacs file such as (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 1), b= ut > now, though when I press DELETE it does what it's supposed to, when I pre= ss > C-h t, which is something I need to get back to the tutorial, it gets stu= ck > on the notepad. Before the change to .emacs, C-h would send me to notepad > and upon pressing t would send me to the tutorial. What's the solution to > this? I=E2=80=99m using a MacBook.