How do I make the delete key work?

How do I make the delete key work?

[Lars Gustafsson]

How do I make the delete key work? (require 'delbs) is supposed to
work for XEmacs. But it doesn't work for Emacs. I want it to delete
the character just right of where the cursor is.
 
Thankful for answers, Lars

Re: How do I make the delete key work?

[Bob Babcock]

lng2@spray.se (Lars Gustafsson) wrote in 
news:340bc066.0212231242.64277e4c@posting.google.com:

> How do I make the delete key work? (require 'delbs) is supposed to
> work for XEmacs. But it doesn't work for Emacs. I want it to delete
> the character just right of where the cursor is.

I use these with emacs 20.7.1 under Win/2K:

(global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char)
(global-set-key "\C-h" 'delete-backward-char)
(global-set-key "\C-?" 'delete-backward-char)
(define-key emacs-lisp-mode-map "\C-?" 'delete-backward-char)

Re: How do I make the delete key work?

[Jonathon Isaac Swiderski]

Bob Babcock <wssddc@nospam.gis.net> writes:

> lng2@spray.se (Lars Gustafsson) wrote in 
> news:340bc066.0212231242.64277e4c@posting.google.com:
> 
> > How do I make the delete key work? 
> 
> I use these with emacs 20.7.1 under Win/2K:
> 
> (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char)
> (global-set-key "\C-h" 'delete-backward-char)
> (global-set-key "\C-?" 'delete-backward-char)
> (define-key emacs-lisp-mode-map "\C-?" 'delete-backward-char)

Aha!  Thank you for that last --- I'd got things working everywhere but the
modeline and a couple other places with the first three; I was wondering why I
still got errors in the modeline. . . .

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Re: How do I make the delete key work?

[Jose A. Ortega Ruiz]

lng2@spray.se (Lars Gustafsson) writes:

> How do I make the delete key work? (require 'delbs) is supposed to
> work for XEmacs. But it doesn't work for Emacs. I want it to delete
> the character just right of where the cursor is.
>  
> Thankful for answers, Lars

hi,

in http://tiny-tools.sourceforge.net/emacs-keys.html you can find and
excellent guide for setting up emacs keybindings (including the delete
key)

hth,
jao

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