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From: Bernardo <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs in console mode -- DELETE key misbehavior
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:47:48 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A73D704.1030108@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p5CdncN9t951lO7XnZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d@giganews.com>

> 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
> 

does this do what you want?
(global-set-key [backspace] 'backward-delete-char)




      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-01  5:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-31 15:12 GNU Emacs in console mode -- DELETE key misbehavior Ignoramus21205
2009-08-01  5:47 ` Bernardo [this message]

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