From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Halliday Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: simple editor required Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:47:12 +0100 Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030616114712.73c4d27e.devnull@example.com> References: <8465nduadj.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <5lfzmgbrio.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <84el1zcze6.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <841xxzto54.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055760690 28647 80.91.224.249 (16 Jun 2003 10:51:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 16 12:51:26 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 19RrZ4-0007OF-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:50:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19RrZv-0004dM-QD for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 06:51:11 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!rip!news.webusenet.com!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Newsreader: GNU/Linux Sylpheed Claws 0.9.0 Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.41.204.42 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk Original-X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1055760431 82.41.204.42 (Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:47:11 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:47:11 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114473 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:10965 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10965 Paul Edwards wrote: > For technical curiosity though, why was everyone convinced > the global-set-key would work? And indeed it did work on > Xemacs. I would have thought this situation would have > come up all the time for the presumably large number of > people who want that behaviour of DEL doing a delete-char. did anyone suggest (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 0) in ~/.emacs if that doesnt do what you want, then replace the 0 with a 1. i know you have it working, this is just out of curiosity. this was something i had issues with when i started using emacs, but i wanted the opposite to what you wanted. when i read the docs, it basically said all DEL/BACKSPACE issues could be solved with that call. but that may be more to do with emacs picking up key mappings incorrectly. reference: http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs/html_node/emacs_512.html please excuse me if this post is redundant, but i guess everyone is a little confused as to why things are a little bit borked on Paul's machine (from the shear length of the thread for such a trivial issue)