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Date:      Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:10:13 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Using META and DEL keys in console
Message-ID:  <20050302004013.GY73162@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <4225093F.8010707@mac.com>
References:  <20050301194338.3a49611d@ale.varnet.bsd> <20050302002549.GX73162@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4225093F.8010707@mac.com>

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On Tuesday,  1 March 2005 at 19:30:55 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> [ ... ]
>>> And C-d acts as DEL.
>>
>> That doesn't sound very likely, though I haven't played around with
>> the termcap entries.
>
> C-d is normally bound to delete-char, which performs forward
> deletion.  Some people expect the DEL key to behave the same way...

I get the impression that the original sender (whose attributions you
have removed) knows Emacs fairly well.  As you know, DEL is bound to
delete-backward-char.  It seemed to me that he was saying something
else.

Interestingly, I've just discovered that the DELETE key on my cursor
keypad is bound to c-d.  So maybe that's what he was expecting.

Greg
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