Re: GNU Emacs in console mode -- DELETE key misbehavior

[Bernardo <bernardo.bacic@pobox.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)