From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: (Nuno Silva) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: normal-erase-is-backspace-mode: ESC+backspace Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:16:31 +0300 Organization: Datemas.de http://www.news.datemas.de Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507612853 10857 195.159.176.226 (10 Oct 2017 05:20:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 05:20:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 10 07:20:49 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e1myF-0001pt-Fe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 07:20:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32911 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e1myL-0006Bx-Ac for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 01:20:53 -0400 X-Received: by 10.28.143.13 with SMTP id r13mr1434764wmd.30.1507612591782; Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:16:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!m72no4718730wmc.0!news-out.google.com!x63ni15012wme.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!news.datemas.de!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Injection-Info: news.datemas.de; logging-data="10516"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@datemas.de"; x-trace=L/3uMKpboe5jjI8n1bY7DD/l47IEqilRY/kVRFeB6g2WKREgi5LRsTEwKRgr7XY8gsZwVwqPjKiMK6SMfrXdcsU26FSvDbxqhfCIN8x5KO/rVaGvtdSzDOjZD9WzJ4Umtd0xrA/BkJlr5Tg1fP3sLtVawx0zxQlnbwCEy46NnEI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:220423 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114530 Archived-At: Hello, When using a terminal where normal-erase-is-backspace-mode is enabled, and where the key labeled with the long left arrow ("backspace") is deleting the char to the left, and the key labeled "Delete" is deleting the char under the cursor -- that is, where both keys are working as I want -- I am not able to use ESC "backspace". F1 b shows that M-DEL is indeed bound correctly: M-DEL backward-kill-word But ESC backspace will result in the message: ESC is undefined With F1 k ESC backspace further showing ESC (translated from M-DEL) is undefined Looks like something probably needs to be configured in a different way. Other M- combinations will work flawlessly with Escape (e.g. ESC b for M-b, ESC f for M-f). (There is no Alt or Meta key available, so I must use Escape.) What would be a good way to address this, short of manually defining keybindings such as ESC ? -- Nuno Silva