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Date:      Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:52:20 -0500
From:      Rodger Castle <rodger@profocusdesigns.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Emacs and backspace - again
Message-ID:  <20050326235220.61c8b8fc.rodger@profocusdesigns.com>

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I am aware that the 'Emacs backspace takes me to help' question has been delt with ad-nauseum on other lists and pages, but I can't seem to get any of the suggested fixes to work.

As in http://freebsd.active-venture.com/developers-handbook/emacs.html I added the following line to my ~/.emacs file:

(global-set-key [backspace] 'backward-delete-char)

In fact, it's the only line in my ~/.emacs

Am I missing something?

I'm using emacs20 from the ports collection (as emacs from ports would not compile due to the Xau3d compile error) on 5.4-PRERELEASE.
$TERM is xterm

Rodger



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