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From: Ignoramus21205 <ignoramus21205@NOSPAM.21205.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: GNU Emacs in console mode -- DELETE key misbehavior
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:12:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p5CdncN9t951lO7XnZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d@giganews.com> (raw)

I use Ubuntu Jaunty Linux. 

My problem is that when I run emacs -nw, my BACKSPACE key somehow is
mapped to C-d and deletes forward. This is NOT what I want -- I want
it to delete backward like regular C-d.

I did run emacs without any custom .emacs file, and still had this
problem. 

When I do describe-key <ENTER> and then his BACKSPACE, I get:

C-d runs the command delete-char
  which is an interactive built-in function in `C source code'.
It is bound to C-d, <deletechar>.
(delete-char N &optional KILLFLAG)

I did note that if I say in command line:

stty erase C-v BACKSPACE

then BACKSPACE works as I want, but I would like to see if I can do it
in emacs only.

i


             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-31 15:12 UTC|newest]

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2009-07-31 15:12 Ignoramus21205 [this message]
2009-08-01  5:47 ` GNU Emacs in console mode -- DELETE key misbehavior Bernardo

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