home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!hwcs!hwcs!donaldh
- From: donaldh@cs.hw.ac.uk (Donald I Hunter)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: How to bind backspace ???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.132929.28033@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 13:29:29 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator)
- Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
- Lines: 20
-
- In emacs, how exactly do you redefine backspace so it doesn't return Ctrl-H.
- I can easily do this in lucid emacs by doing
-
- (define-key global-map 'backspace 'backward-delete-char)
-
- but I can't work out what to replace the 'backspace with in gnu emacs.
- I can always redefine backspace to be delete using xmodmap. But that
- buggers motif dialog boxes which require backspace for editing.
-
- Any help would be appreciated.
-
- Donald.
- --
-
- +--------------------------------------------------------+
- | Donald I. Hunter donaldh@uk.ac.hw.cs |
- +--------------------------------------------------------+
- | Hello. Just walk along and try NOT to think about your |
- | INTESTINES being almost FORTY YARDS LONG!! |
- +--------------------------------------------------------+
-