From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Uday S Reddy" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-h sends backspace? Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:22:59 -0000 Organization: School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206110443 29669 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2008 14:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 21 15:41:11 2008 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 1JciQd-00046n-Tt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:41:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JciQ3-0005cq-IP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!news.stack.nl!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!feed2.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!news.bham.ac.uk!bhamcs!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: soapbox.cs.bham.ac.uk 1206109333 40701 147.188.193.16 (21 Mar 2008 14:22:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@cs.bham.ac.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157226 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:52597 Archived-At: "Christian Herenz" wrote in message news:fro823$88j$1@registered.motzarella.org... >> http://kb.iu.edu/data/abvn.html > > The title of this packge is, Emacs - Bacspace sends Help. My Problem > is Help sends Backspace... No, I don't think you understood what the page says. "The Backspace key (on most keyboards) generates ASCII code 8. C-h sends the same code" So, whether you say Backspace sends C-h or C-h sends Backspace, you are saying the same thing. This group can only answer questions about Emacs. > However, the last solution, remapping the keys to C-x h, would work. > But I would like to have C-h as help and backspace as backspace. Is > that possible? Whether it is possible or not is a question for your keyboard and terminal emulator you might be using. The web page gave instructions for Unix terminal emulators to make Backspace send C-?. Whether it works for your terminal emulator or what else works for it, is open. You may not get an answer to that question in this forum. Cheers, Uday Reddy