From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Balaji Venkataraman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: backspace/del/C-h confusion between emacs -nw & emacs X11 Date: 19 May 2003 18:29:06 -0700 Organization: Intel Corporation Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <8a65o676e5.fsf@sm.intel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053394839 2152 80.91.224.249 (20 May 2003 01:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 01:40:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 20 03:40:34 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Hw7E-0000YQ-00 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 03:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19HvyM-0003Uo-Lx for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 May 2003 21:31:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newshub1.wanet.net!uunet!sac.uu.net!ash.uu.net!news01.intel.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: leith.sm.intel.com Original-X-Trace: news01.intel.com 1053394147 17874 10.13.43.98 (20 May 2003 01:29:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news01.intel.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 01:29:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113411 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9905 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9905 I'm sure this is an oft repeated question, but I still haven't found a fool proof solution yet. I'm not a novice user, so I'd appreciate it if you read the whole mail, before replying. This is with Emacs (21.1.2) on Solaris. In short I want the and "C-h" to behave similarly whether I run "emacs -q" or "emacs -nw -q". I want the key to delete the previous char and "C-h" to give me the help menu - this is what happens when you run "emacs -q". But with "-nw", both those keys seem to be tied to the same thing. Changing one (with keyboard translate) changes the other. I have read the emacs news (do "C-h C-n" and search for the string "backspace"). It talks about the difference in behavior, but I want to be able to avoid it. It's most annoying to bring up emacs with the "-nw" in an xterm and have the backspace give you "help". Thanks, Balaji. -- Remember 2 + 2 = 5, for large values of 2