Re: ILC2005: McCarthy denounces Common Lisp, "Lisp", XML, and Rahul

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Ivan Boldyrev <boldyrev+nospam@cgitftp.uiggm.nsc.ru> writes:

> On 9161 day of my life Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
>> [ Now, if anybody could explain me why it doesn't work automatically
>>   when I put this in my ~/.emacs:
>>
>>     (case window-system
>>       ((nil)
>>        (message "houra")
>>        (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode)) ; never works :-(
>
> Does at least (message "houra") work?
> Try also to use (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 1)

Yes, houra is logged.  And with:
  (setq inhibit-default-init t) ; and
  (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 1) ; it still leaves
C-h bound to delete-backward-char, and
DEL translated to C-d bound to delete-char

It's been that way forever (20,7, 21.[123], 22.0.50.*).


(After I run manually M-x normal-erase-is-backspace-mode RET
C-h is prefix for help, and
DEL is bound to delete-backward-char, as expected).


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