From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "J. E. Lewis" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Upgraded to 21.1 and backspace no longer works Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:16:25 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030305131625.B161444@athena.louisville.edu> References: <20030305111938.A114578@athena.louisville.edu> <3405-Wed05Mar2003194030+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046888338 21084 80.91.224.249 (5 Mar 2003 18:18:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:18:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 05 19:18:54 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18qdTi-0005TN-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 19:18:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qdTA-0000f6-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:18:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qdSp-0000dj-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:17:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qdSo-0000cO-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:17:59 -0500 Original-Received: from erouter0.it-datacntr.louisville.edu ([136.165.5.194]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qdSo-0000bw-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:17:58 -0500 Original-Received: from athena.louisville.edu (athena.louisville.edu [136.165.5.69]) 98C9C36032 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:17:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by athena.louisville.edu (Postfix, from userid 40934) id DD3FF287A; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:16:25 -0500 (EST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3405-Wed05Mar2003194030+0200-eliz@elta.co.il>; from eliz@elta.co.il on Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:40:31PM +0200 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7362 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7362 On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:40:31PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Backspace no longer works the same after upgrading from version 20 to > > version 21. It works as a delete-char as opposed to > > delete-backward-char. > > Try this: > > M-x normal-erase-is-backspace-mode RET > > Did that help? Yes that fixed it. But I wonder what changed, to stop it from working in 21 when it worked the way I expected it to in 20. In my .emacs do I need to say something like: (setq normal-erase-is-backspace-mode t) -- Jim Lewis __louie__AT__louie_DOT_cc_____