From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Rasmussen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Backspace-like behavior Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:15:05 +0100 Organization: UNI-C Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068910409 23300 80.91.224.253 (15 Nov 2003 15:33:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:33:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 15 16:33:27 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AL2QR-0000hH-00 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:33:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AL3Ll-0003jt-9r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2003 11:32:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: oek.dk Original-X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 1068909092 15106 62.61.154.25 (15 Nov 2003 15:11:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:11:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, da In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118321 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14262 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14262 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>From: David Rasmussen >>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help >>Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:01:32 +0100 >> >>But both the Windows version of emacs that I am using, and the version >>on a Debian box I am connecting to, treats C-d and Del the same way. How >>do I do a normal Backspace, that deletes the character to the left of >>the cursor? > > You press Backspace. > So why doesn't backspace work on the linux box, and also, why did the tutorial say that emacs doesn't use backspace? > >>Backspace works on the windows version, but not on the Debian >>version that I use via ssh. > > That's something you should figure out with your terminal emulator, > the one you use top log in to the Debian box: configure it so that > when you press Backspace, it sends the DEL character (ASCII decimal > code 127). > OK. /David