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- From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Re: demacs: ESC-Del binding?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.061207.7412@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 06:12:07 GMT
- References: <RFINCH.92Oct31154530@venice.water.ca.gov>
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- In article <RFINCH.92Oct31154530@venice.water.ca.gov> rfinch@water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch) writes:
- >Has anybody bound the keys ESC-Delete? I'd like to bind it
- >to backward-kill-word, same as Unix.
-
- It works straight out of the box, same as Unix. I suspect your confusion
- arises from two PC keys: Del, on the keypad and Delete, amoung the extended
- keys. Neither of these keys generates a DEL character. So they are the wrong
- keys to press to invoke backward-kill-word.
-
- Many people don't realize this, but the PC keyboard bios will generate a DEL
- character if you press the CTRL-BACKSPACE key combination.
-
- In Demacs, it would be nicer if the BACKSPACE key generated a DEL character
- instead of C-h, since the DEL character is bound to delete-backward-char or
- some similar function in each major mode. The bobcat.el file supplied with
- Demacs tells emacs to swap the characters generated by the two keys:
- BACKSPACE and CTRL-BACKSPACE. If are using it, like most people, then you
- will find that ESC-BACKSPACE generates the ESC-DEL character sequence, thereby
- invoking backward-kill-word.
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