From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: matthew.a.hess@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: New C-h/Delete issue on emacs22.2.1-nox (Xquartz 2.3.0) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 21:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <0caacc78-2b64-40e0-8359-f52ad39b0010@z6g2000pre.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217945190 22662 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2008 14:06:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:06:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 05 16:07:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KQNC4-0001Y4-Tr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:07:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55511 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQNB9-0007Hx-LY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:06:23 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z6g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.169.21.252 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1217910733 9033 127.0.0.1 (5 Aug 2008 04:32:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 04:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z6g2000pre.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.169.21.252; posting-account=1JrAigoAAABFwqCLRySIs4tpJzLN02KR User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160848 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:05:21 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56200 Archived-At: I'm running mac 10.5.4 and using emacs in an xterm window (not gtk graphical). I've seen threads where the reverse of this behavior (well some of it anyway) has been remedied before, but i haven't seen any posts that talk about this: - Pressing C-h deletes backwards instead of help. Running the describe-key command says that it's DEL (backward-delete-char- untabify). - However, pressing the "Delete" key on my keyboard does backward- delete as well... - Pressing M-DEL (<- "Delete" on my keyboard) marks a paragraph. Describe-key says that this combination is C-M-h, the mark-defun command. For me, M-DEL used to be the 'backward-kill-word ' command until i upgraded Xquartz. I want to get my old key-bindings back: Delete -> backwards-delete M-Delete -> backwards-kill-word C-h -> help What's also really strange is that when i'm in xterm the M-DEL actually does delete words backwards. I'm at a loss to explain this...