From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pr@desany.com (Brian Desany) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: alt and backspace issues Date: 9 Sep 2004 11:44:45 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <63235f2b.0409091044.528de8dc@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094755794 8428 80.91.224.253 (9 Sep 2004 18:49:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 18:49:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 09 20:49:45 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C5TzM-00085F-00 for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 20:49:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5U4h-0004CC-OI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:55:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.251.134.130 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1094755486 4052 127.0.0.1 (9 Sep 2004 18:44:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 18:44:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125218 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20572 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20572 There is a lot of information out there on this, but I couldn't find anything that worked for me. I am trying to run version 21.2.1 in X-window mode (I think thats what you call it - I am NOT using the -nw option). There are two problems (so far): 1. The ALT key is not being recognized as the meta key, and 2. The backspace and delete keys are both triggering 'delete-char'. I have verified that neither of C-h c and C-h l are seeing a distinction between these 2 keys. So the Delete key is doing what I expect but the Backspace key is not (I expect it to delete to the left). If I run emacs -nw, then both problems go away (i.e. Backspace and Alt both work as expected), but I get a new problem: C-h acts like Delete and C-? acts like undo. FWIW this is just like how the bash shell behaves. Are these things reflecting some common underlying problem? In X-window mode, how can I get Delete to delete-char, backspace to delete-backward-char, Alt to be Meta and C-h to start help? Thanks- -Brian.