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Re: Emacs reads both DEL and Backspace as DEL
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs reads both DEL and Backspace as DEL |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:38:01 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
"Ivan A. Uemlianin" <ivan@jurakm.com> writes:
> One change I wanted was to have the '<X|' key (Backspace?) as
> delete-backward-char and 'Delete' (DEL) as delete-char. However, my
> emacs reads both of these keys as DEL (detectable with M-x
> describe-key).
Are you running under a window system? Under a window system, C-h c
and C-h l probably say different things about the keys.
You need to hit C-h c first, then the key, but for C-h l you have to
hit the key first, then C-h l.
Maybe (global-set-key (kbd "<delete>") 'delete-char) works.
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