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- From: darrylo@sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Re: Mapping ^H in Emacs for a HP-UX 8.0 machine running VUE.
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 22:20:59 GMT
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- Nick R Colakovic (colakovi@en.ecn.purdue.edu) wrote:
-
- > I have recently installed the Unofficial HP Emacs distribution on a HP
- > 700 series machine running HP/UX 8.0.
- > I succeeded in compiling emacs on this system but am faced
- > with a problem in using it in X. The system uses HP's VUE X
- > environment. The problem is that the keyboard's backspace (delete) is
- > mapped to ^H. This means that while in a X window pressing the
- > backspace key results in calling up the emacs help system. Unlike
- > most keyboards that I have used, there appears to be no delete or
- > backspace key mapped to ^?.
-
- If you are really using the "unofficial HP GNU Emacs", you should
- not have this problem. The code is written such that backspace does
- indeed backspace, and not bring up the help system. You did install the
- zillions of emacs-lisp files, didn't you (and put them in the correct
- place)? The Emacs binary loads many emacs-lisp files at runtime (if
- they are needed, and only as they are needed); if Emacs can't access
- them, then all sorts of bad things can happen (like backspace not
- backspacing).
-
- This could also occur if you have intentionally remapped backspace
- to DEL (instead of leaving backspace as backspace -- the default). If
- you've done this, you're on your own.
-
- -- Darryl Okahata
- Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
-
- DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
- constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
- little green men that have been following him all day.
-