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Bob Babcock <wssddc@nospam.gis.net> writes:

> lng2@spray.se (Lars Gustafsson) wrote in 
> news:340bc066.0212231242.64277e4c@posting.google.com:
> 
> > How do I make the delete key work? 
> 
> I use these with emacs 20.7.1 under Win/2K:
> 
> (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char)
> (global-set-key "\C-h" 'delete-backward-char)
> (global-set-key "\C-?" 'delete-backward-char)
> (define-key emacs-lisp-mode-map "\C-?" 'delete-backward-char)

Aha!  Thank you for that last --- I'd got things working everywhere but the
modeline and a couple other places with the first three; I was wondering why I
still got errors in the modeline. . . .

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