From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Corneli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: keymap problem Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:54:14 -0600 Message-ID: References: <348%d.20410$Pz7.15394@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com> <423DB701.7070408@yahoo.com> <423DD1AF.2020707@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111348786 29265 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2005 19:59:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:59:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 20:59:46 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD6aO-0006Dv-85 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:59:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD6rL-0006ip-DW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:17:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DD6qm-0006am-Ts for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:16:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DD6qd-0006WD-Qg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:16:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD6qd-0006U9-Oc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:16:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [146.6.139.124] (helo=dell3.ma.utexas.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DD6V5-0002KJ-8L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:54:15 -0500 Original-Received: from lab45.ma.utexas.edu (mail@lab45.ma.utexas.edu [128.83.133.159]) by dell3.ma.utexas.edu (8.11.0.Beta3/8.10.2) with ESMTP id j2KJsEQ12193; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:54:14 -0600 Original-Received: from jcorneli by lab45.ma.utexas.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DD6V4-0001rZ-00; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:54:14 -0600 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <423DD1AF.2020707@yahoo.com> (message from no spam on Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:40:31 -0800) 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25050 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25050 Thanks again. I can run xmodmap and xev on my laptop, but on the university's system, I can't. xmodmap -pk xmodmap: unable to open display '' and xev I can't find at all. Sounds bad. Have you tried putting (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 1) or (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode -1) in your .emacs? That might do what you want, or at least get you part way there. Although I haven't tried, I suspect that I'm not going to have much luck getting an X session across their firewall AND mine. Is there some other way to do this? If `normal-erase-is-backspace-mode' doesn't do everything you need, look at its code and see what you can do using the syntax for remappings given there (but in your global keymap).