From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ignoramus21205 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: GNU Emacs in console mode -- DELETE key misbehavior Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:12:40 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249071704 28180 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2009 20:21:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:21:44 +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 Jul 31 22:21:37 2009 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 1MWybh-0002nt-24 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:21:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42913 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWybg-0000wO-6l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:21:36 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:12:40 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-2 (Linux) Original-Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-X-Trace: sv3-Sl1iCf920rIiH6GFlcxD771CkBj2ufnFpw21e1OPBNFSzp6z7lAuGZ30KFiCkrQFbgJd5wiw7pdr0qI!KZSoWFsXv/fEHgo9DpvgX+V+p2Ha58HLRZSYtg4zVDq9R1xPd9K2cbaLV9uPxsopdYRj+OAo58qh Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 X-Original-Bytes: 1763 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171390 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:20:11 -0400 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:66582 Archived-At: I use Ubuntu Jaunty Linux. My problem is that when I run emacs -nw, my BACKSPACE key somehow is mapped to C-d and deletes forward. This is NOT what I want -- I want it to delete backward like regular C-d. I did run emacs without any custom .emacs file, and still had this problem. When I do describe-key and then his BACKSPACE, I get: C-d runs the command delete-char which is an interactive built-in function in `C source code'. It is bound to C-d, . (delete-char N &optional KILLFLAG) I did note that if I say in command line: stty erase C-v BACKSPACE then BACKSPACE works as I want, but I would like to see if I can do it in emacs only. i