Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 16:32:51 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: ben@narcissus.ml.org (Snob Art Genre) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, ksmm@cybercom.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few questions Message-ID: <199704192132.QAA23076@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970418184223.15245A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> from Snob Art Genre at "Apr 18, 97 06:44:30 pm"
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In a previous message, Snob Art Genre said:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Doug White wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, The Classiest Man Alive wrote:
> >
> > > (1) How can I get emacs to accept my Backspace key for backspacing rather
> > > than my delete key?
> >
> > stty erase <backspace>
>
> Just to amplify a bit, that's "stty erase ^H". That's a ^ and then an H,
> which stty knows means control-H.
That's not going to work. He asked about emacs. Unfortunately, I don't
have my emacs book here at home. But what you're going to need to do
is add a couple commands to your .emacsrc file.
Oh, it's in the FAQ (along with a couple of paragraphs from Stallman as
to why it's the "wrong" thing to do).
(keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-?) ; translate `C-h' to DEL
(keyboard-translate ?\C-? ?\C-h) ; translate DEL to `C-h'.
Read your FAQ: /usr/local/share/emacs/19.34/etc/FAQ
Paul.
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