Re: New C-h/Delete issue on emacs22.2.1-nox (Xquartz 2.3.0)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 06.08.2008 um 18:19 schrieb matt:

> > Then try to reserve another "character" for erase:
> >
> >         stty erase '^?'
> >
> > This should free C-h. Obviously I should not have thought of the
> > characters but the actions, that are each bound to some character ...
>
> Changing erase gives me back C-h -> help, but makes my "Delete" key
> write '^H' in the terminal and do nothing at all in emacs.  However,
> when i use the C-DEL, it does delete backwards, and describe-key says
> that that combo is just DEL ('backward-delete...).
> Also, M-DEL still gives C-M-h.

I am still working with Tiger and a rather old version of X11. I seem  
to remember that I had a similiar problem in xterm – it "popped up"  
one day. It was surprising. Could be this entry in ~/.Xdefaults cured  
it:

        XTerm*ttyModes:         erase ^?

There is more possible with xterm ('man xterm', for example in GNU  
Emacs, will show). There is also more support in GNU Emacs, C-h i  
should lead to it, somehow. I don't remember much since I work almost  
never in xterm – when X11 is running why should I launch GNU Emacs  
without its own windows, as slave of an xterm?!


> Could it be that I should switch to an encoding other than ascii?

No. The standard ISO and Unicode encodings all start with the 128  
code points from US-ASCII. I'd recommend to check the Xquartz-dev  
mailing list (mailto:Xquartz-dev@lists.macosforge.org) at http:// 
lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev. It's about the  
new X11R7 based X server and X11 releases from Apple. There is also  
the more general X11-users mailing list (mailto:X11- 
users@lists.apple.com) at http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/x11- 
users.

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Greetings

  Pete

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