[zile-devel] [ zile-Support Requests-1439874 ] ^? deletes forward, not backward

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Support Requests item #1439874, was opened at 2006-02-27 20:19
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>Status: Closed
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Aaron Swartz (aaronsw)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: ^? deletes forward, not backward

Initial Comment:
When I use zile on my stock copy of OS X it interprets my hitting the 
backspace key and (apparently) sending ^? as DEL and thus deletes 
forward. emacs, ssh, and lots of other applications don't work when I 
switch to having it send ^H, so that isn't an option. Is there some way I 
can get zile to treat ^? as backspace? I tried adding a line to my .zile:

(global-set-key DEL backward-delete-char)

but that didn't seem to work. What should I do?

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>Comment By: Reuben Thomas (rrt)
Date: 2007-05-10 13:13

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Closing. The final word on this is that it's an OS X problem, and there
are workarounds; see the patch tracker. See
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1563161&group_id=17089&atid=317089

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Comment By: Reuben Thomas (rrt)
Date: 2007-02-11 23:53

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By the way, you may want to check the patch for this in the patch tracker
(not yet applied to the main sources).

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Comment By: Reuben Thomas (rrt)
Date: 2007-02-11 23:52

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This is between you and your terminal settings (if you want to fix the
Backspace key); if you want to fix the zile bindings, can you please try it
again with the current version? I think global-set-key was broken when you
filed this report. Sorry I didn't see it earlier.

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