From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: alternative to delete key Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:56:05 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87ejg889ne.fsf@debby.local.net> References: <87fy0ofkrl.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191689638 28262 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2007 16:53:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 16:53:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Nikola Skoric Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 06 18:53:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IeCuX-00077U-25 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:53:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IeCuS-00079R-0d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:53:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IeCuC-00079M-60 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:53:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IeCuA-00079A-6I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:53:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IeCuA-000797-3B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:53:30 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IeCu9-0000sM-J4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:53:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [89.12.155.221] (helo=debby.local.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu5) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML25U-1IeCu72Uhf-00080D; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:53:27 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by debby.local.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IeCwf-0003AW-NF; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:56:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Nikola Skoric's message of "Sat\, 6 Oct 2007 14\:24\:21 +0000 \(UTC\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19L+dp1EiMWn2YNXTQObRWYdB/zgRjctZcHoGW EsczLjYOtnbjRfD7TY9OouuYC9F5mMohWUJ8hVG8lO/+SDTteY fyc5anzLVmaClJ7Q0hLC/OtTCidRyDk X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48161 Archived-At: Nikola Skoric writes: > Dana Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:14:06 +0200, > Sven Joachim kaze: >> Nikola Skoric 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