From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
To: Nikola Skoric <nick-news@net4u.hr>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: alternative to delete key
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:56:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejg889ne.fsf@debby.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe85ql$p4e$1@ss408.t-com.hr> (Nikola Skoric's message of "Sat\, 6 Oct 2007 14\:24\:21 +0000 \(UTC\)")
Nikola Skoric <nick-news@net4u.hr> writes:
> Dana Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:14:06 +0200,
> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> kaze:
>> Nikola Skoric <nick-news@net4u.hr> writes:
>>
>>> Is there another binding for deleting a character on wich the cursor
>>> is other than delete key? I hate it when I have to move my hand to
>>> readh the delete key. Any alternatives?
>>
>> Try C-d. You also may want to re-read the tutorial and the first
>> sections of the Emacs manual for these basic things. ;-)
>
> Sorry for wasting your time :-\ Command summary I was looking at says
> C-d invokes delete-char, and DEL invokes delete-backward-char. So I
> figured those two don't do the same thing. Anyway, I wasn't *that* lazy,
> I really did consult google before asking... next time I'll try out the
> obvious before concluding they don't do the same thing :-D
delete -> C-d (delete-char)
backspace -> DEL (delete-backward-char)
Google is good and fine but please try C-h t and C-h i, they are not
so bad options after all, i. e. they are an example of very, very fine
documentation 8-). Besides, EmacsWiki comes to mind as well.
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-06 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-06 13:02 alternative to delete key Nikola Skoric
2007-10-06 13:14 ` Sven Joachim
2007-10-06 14:24 ` Nikola Skoric
2007-10-06 16:56 ` Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2007-10-07 1:35 ` Giorgos Keramidas
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