From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Confusion about Undo keybinding
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:42:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-A29502.14422611022016@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4403.1455218497.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.4403.1455218497.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Kevin Havener <havenerk@gmail.com> wrote:
> According to the tutorial and other places, undo is bound by default to
> C-/, C-_, and C-x u. However in my newly installed emacs 24.5, C-/ is
> bound to DEL (backspace). I don't think I have any .emacs type file
> overriding the defaults, so is this wrong or is the documentation wrong?
>
> Wait just a minute. C-/ is bound to undo in graphical mode and in xterm
> (-nw) mode. C-/ is bound to DEL in my linux virtual consoles. How is
> this possible?
In terminal mode, only ASCII characters can be used, and there is no
ASCII C-/ character. When you type C-/ it sends the DEL character, I
think because this is what Teletype terminals in the 70's did (or maybe
it's what DEC VTxxx terminals did).
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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2016-02-11 19:42 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2016-02-11 17:15 Confusion about Undo keybinding Kevin Havener
2016-02-11 20:28 ` Emanuel Berg
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