From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 19 14:33:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA14323 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:33:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA14306 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:33:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id QAA23076; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 16:32:51 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199704192132.QAA23076@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: A few questions To: ben@narcissus.ml.org (Snob Art Genre) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 16:32:51 -0500 (CDT) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, ksmm@cybercom.net, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Snob Art Genre at "Apr 18, 97 06:44:30 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > 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. -- "Whoever said, 'Its not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost!" -- M. Navratilova