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- From: lpzssm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (S. Marshall)
- Subject: Re: Emacs backspace
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.110120.11278@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Sender: ssm@uk.ac.nott.psyc
- Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
- References: <1993Jan26.144314.12961@cs.utwente.nl>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 11:01:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.144314.12961@cs.utwente.nl> baumer@cs.utwente.nl (Han Baumer) writes:
- >
- >I want to use Emacs on my TT, but the emacs I have gives help if I
- >press the backspace key. I would like it to delete a character (as it
- >does in most editors). How can I do this?
- >
-
- Backspace on the ST/TT sends a control-h character, which to Emacs is
- help mode, so the easiest solution is probably just to re-configure
- emacs in an initialization file:
-
- (from the emacs FAQ)
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- * Another approach is to switch keybindings and put help on "C-x h"
- instead:
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- (global-set-key "\C-h" 'delete-backward-char)
- (global-set-key "\C-xh" 'help-command) ; override mark-whole-buffer
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- Other popular key bindings for help are M-? and "C-x ?".
-
- WARNING: Don't try to bind DEL to help-command, because there
- are many modes that have local bindings of DEL that will interfere.
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- Sam
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