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Re: inconsistent DELETE key behaviour
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: inconsistent DELETE key behaviour |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:23:41 +0200 (IST) |
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Laurent Wacrenier wrote:
> I'm using Emacs 21.1 on X window and on terminal modes. I've noticed
> the DELETE key behaviour a changed but on window system only, even
> running emacs with the -q option :
>
> - on terminal mode, DELETE erases the character backward
> (as any Unix terminal application does)
> - on window mode, its erases the character forward
Indeed. This is intentional: most people who work on X want the current
behavior.
> As my .emacs is used on Emacs 20 too, I'm using this workaround :
>
> (and
> window-system
> (functionp 'normal-erase-is-backspace-mode)
> (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode nil))
This is the correct customization if you want to turn the new behavior
off.
Thank you for your report.