From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 18:42:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B7D16A45C for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:41:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gordonf@ucar.edu) Received: from ale.atd.ucar.edu (ale.atd.ucar.edu [128.117.80.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F5C544D82 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:20:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gordonf@ucar.edu) Received: from [128.117.78.31] (streamer.atd.ucar.edu [128.117.78.31]) by ale.atd.ucar.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id j6MIKId24753; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:20:22 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <42E138E2.5010500@ucar.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:20:18 -0600 From: Gordon Farquharson Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.4.1 (X11/20050719) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: roger@profocusdesigns.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Emacs and backspace - again X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:42:00 -0000 Hi Roger Try M-x normal-erase-is-backspace-mode. If that works for you, then add (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 0) to your .emacs file. More information is available in the Emacs manual, section: "If Fails to Delete". Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson NCAR/EOL/RTF PO Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 Tel: 303-497-2011