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- From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.ORG (Kevin Gallagher)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
- Subject: Re: Emacs problem
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:50:18 -0500
- Organization: DSC Communications Corp, Plano, TX
- Lines: 37
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Distribution: gnu
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.031503.5763@digi.lonestar.org>
- References: <1jq1clINNqk2@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1jq1clINNqk2@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cb147@cleveland.freenet.edu (David Barzilai) writes:
- >I have recently been attempting to use the gnu version of
- >emacs but have encountered a major difficulty: My erase
- >character has been interpreted as "delete" rather than
- >"backspace." Please note that my terminal emulation is
- >vt102 on my IBM-compatible xt computer.
-
- You did not identify the vt102 emulator you are using, which makes it harder
- to respond.
-
- By default, the PC Backspace key transmits a C-h character. Entering a
- CTRL-Backspace key conbination transmits a DEL character, which not too many
- people realize. (The PC Del key does NOT transmit a DEL character, by the
- way.)
-
- Emacs, by default, uses the DEL character as an erase character. When IBM
- designed the PC keyboard, it copied the Apple II use of C-h as an erase
- character, instead of using DEL, which was becoming the more accepted
- character to use.
-
- Digital Equipent uses the DEL character as an erase character in its editors
- and its Delete key on its VT terminals (in the same position as the PC
- Backspace key is located) generates a DEL character.
-
- The more recent versions of GNU Emacs come with a lisp file called bobcat.el
- which switches the GNU Emacs interpretation of C-h and DEL. It uses the GNU Emacs
- keyboard translation table to accomplish this.
-
- Once loaded, GNU Emacs will treat C-h as if a DEL were entered and DEL as if a
- C-h were entered.
-
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