Re: close buffer with keystroke?

[Kai Grossjohann]

"Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff_hamann@hamanndonald.com> writes:

> Thanks. That's just the info I was looking for. Now I have to figure out how
> to configure emacs so that when I hit the delete key (when using emacs over
> ssh) the characters delete instead of some help prompt, but I know that info
> is in the FAQ.

Do you have a configurable terminal?  If so, it is best to configure
that to send DEL (that's ascii character 127) when you hit the
backspace key, and to send ESC [ 3 ~ (four characters) when you hit
the delete key.  That will be recognized by Emacs automatically, I
believe.

(You also might have to "stty erase ^?" from the shell where ^? is
obtained by typing C-v and then the backspace key.  I hope.)

Emacs calls it DEL, the shell calls it erase, everybody else calls it
backspace...  Talk about confusion.