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Sun, 20 Mar 2005 05:43:28 GMT |
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I've been given an account on a university system running Linux, and the
Emacs version is 21.2.1. The problem is, I cannot figure out how
to make my Backspace key work properly. Or rather, I can, sort of, but
only by typing global-set-key each time.
Before you say "so put that in your .emacs file, and off you go" -- I've
been trying to do that, but can't make it work.
Details:
I'm running Fedora Core 3 and using ssh to get to the host.
if I do M-x global-set-key while in Emacs, when I hit Backspace, it
displays it as C-d (First clue something isn't right). How do I change
this binding, so that my Backspace is really mapped to a backspace, and
not C-d?
If I give it the function 'delete-backward-char', then Backspace AND C-d
do the same thing, which is a slight improvement, but not really what I
want.
and putting
(global-set-key [backspace] 'delete-backward-char)
or
(global-set-key [DEL] 'delete-backward-char)
in the .emacs file doesn't work: Backspace still deletes forward.
Moreover, C-h on this system is currently the way to get backspace
functionality, not "help" as it should be.
So how do I fix all this? I've been poring over the Gnu emacs website
and I know it has something to do with the keymaps, but I haven't quite
managed to figure it out. Thanks
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