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- From: thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.sys.3b1
- Subject: Re: New user to EMACS on 3b1/PC7300 -- help!!
- Message-ID: <7518@public.BTR.COM>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 22:50:57 GMT
- References: <dburr.711951948@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu>
- Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help
- Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, Mountain View CA
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- In article <dburr.711951948@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu> dburr@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu writes:
- |Well, I decided to take the plunge, and I got Emacs running on my PC7300
- |(Unkx PC). This is the GNU Emacs distribution at OSU-CIS, not the one
- |from The STORE!.
- |
- |So far, I like it. It's pretty good. But I do have a big problem.
- |
- |I am used to hitting the Backspace key (the one right next to the
- |Reset/Break button) to erase mistakes. JOVE works this way, vi works
- |this way. But, alas, EMACS doesn't. It does some sort of help menu
- |thing. To correct mistakes, I must use the DEL key, which is extremely
- |inconvenient (you have to hit shift while hitting ESC), and I'm not used
- |to that anyway. I heard that there might be a way to "rebind" the
- |functionality of keys, but I don't know enough of EMACS to figure out how
- |to do it. I would like to rebind the "delete" function to the backspace
- |key, and put the "help" function (or whatever function that backspace
- |normally does) into the DEL key (shift-ESC). How do I do this?
- |[...]
-
- Enclosed is my $HOME/.emacs file on all my 3B1, HP-UX, IRIX, and SunOS systems:
-
- ---8<---cut here--->8---
- (global-set-key "\b" 'delete-backward-char)
- (global-set-key "\034" 'help-for-help)
- (global-set-key "\C-xv" 'shrink-window)
- (global-set-key "\C-x\\" 'overwrite-mode)
- (global-set-key "\C-x!" 'compare-windows)
- (global-set-key "\M-#" 'goto-line)
- (global-set-key "\M-s" 'center-line)
- (setq default-major-mode 'fundamental-mode)
- (setq inhibit-startup-message 1)
- ---8<---cut here--->8---
-
- BTW, for those who saw "The STORE" and are assuming that's some commercial
- operation, it's not. It used to be a free uucp site operated by AT&T for
- 3B1 owners; its former contents are now archived at ftp.uu.net and at
- archive.cis.ohio-state.edu in the pub/att7300 areas.
-
- Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]
-