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* Backspace-like behavior
@ 2003-11-15 13:01 David Rasmussen
  2003-11-15 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
       [not found] ` <mailman.125.1068911535.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: David Rasmussen @ 2003-11-15 13:01 UTC (permalink / raw)


According to the tutorial I am reading, C-d works like Del works on most 
windows editors, that is, it deletes the character to the right of the 
cursor, and Del works like Backspace usually works:

C-d
     delete-char. Deletes the character to the right of (under, if the 
cursor is a block that covers a character) the cursor.

DEL
     delete-backward-char. Deletes the character to the left of the cursor.


But both the Windows version of emacs that I am using, and the version 
on a Debian box I am connecting to, treats C-d and Del the same way. How 
do I do a normal Backspace, that deletes the character to the left of 
the cursor? Backspace works on the windows version, but not on the 
Debian version that I use via ssh. And according to the tutorial "Emacs 
does not use C-h (aka Backspace) for deletion", so I will have to get 
rid of the Backspace habit.

/David

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