Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 09:19:36 -0400 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU Cc: terryl@cs.stanford.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Backspace and delete problem in X/Netscape Message-ID: <9505101319.AA20784@yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199505100737.AAA17566@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> (gibbs@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu)
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>>>>> "Justin" == Justin T Gibbs <gibbs@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
>> But... I'm using the us.iso.kbd keymap so that the backspace
>> key is really delete. As I'm sure most of you know, this get's
>> emacs working right, but netscape is now screwed up.
Justin> Sure, don't use del as your backspace character. Just do
Justin> something like this in your .emacs:
Justin> ;; key bindings
Justin> (global-set-key "\C-h" 'backward-delete-char)
Justin> (setq search-delete-char (string-to-char "\C-h"))
Justin> (global-set-key "\C-_" 'help-command)
Justin> (setq help-char (string-to-char "\C-_"))
This works for the casual Emacs user, but not for the diehard:
What about ange-ftp and comint that directly compare a key value with
delete and backspace, or bookmark-mode's meaning of delete, or
buffer-menu-mode's, or c-mode's augmentation of delete, or cc-mode's,
or command-history-mode's, or dired, or the keyboard macro editor, or
gnus' and rmail's and info's interpretation of delete as scroll-down,
or ...
It's a pain in the butt to fix them all. It's easier to just swap the
two keys.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA
I wonder if angels believe in ghosts. -- Jack Handey
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