Re: Emacs 21.3.1 -nw over ssh, C-h not bringing up help

[comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.)]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> > From: comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.)
> > Date: 19 Mar 2005 14:27:31 -0600
> > 
> > The problem now is that Under "GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X
> > toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2004-10-16 on raven, modified by
> > Debian" pressing C-h now deletes left of the cursor, and the only way
> > to bring up help is M-x help.  I've fiddled with various SEcureCRT
> > settings to no avail.  I at least get backspace to work right if I let
> > it send backspace for backspace. 
> > 
> > Anyone have the magic bullet for this?
> 
> Perhaps "M-x normal-erase-is-backspace-mode RET" is it?

Woohoo!  We have a winner!    

Doing that, along with setting SecureCRT back to the way I had it with
"backspace sends delete"  gets me where I want to go.  

As others mentioned, the mentions of X resources aren't germane to
remote ssh use in terminal mode. 

Thanks all who replied though, and to Eli for the ultimate answer.
Perhaps the Debian elisp customizations that load on this version of
emacs here unset this while they were defaults on RedHat.

Best Regards, 
-- 
Todd H.
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