From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 24 21:22:39 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E36D4106566B for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:22:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atcs.matthew@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yi0-f54.google.com (mail-yi0-f54.google.com [209.85.218.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0E38FC15 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:22:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yie12 with SMTP id 12so218779yie.13 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:22:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OoOmEhX6uDQfqo9WaX1wKaXjxgZTUuNcDS4nx5AR3HI=; b=JXx7pRKt8q6V8oJHO41vWbAOGPsWXPddLd0Igs0qiFimbbm1lATdIvsjxE7U/SYwR1 aA+ShgbLgqAfmjIA7K7gjpGehh7h0gvnkG7aM5CDfcF4l9bTPygo5UdlGzxD2/kxMbxr R6IfXfhzr2YFAOQIBaBDPg74QN1y8O/ZZKSMo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=eMQdA7rRucwQhb7DmsHyoe+812Jsml2qLQOwWhrzznvPOySlvs/4yIc4dcrTX/qhXj L1z86ilKhbbM+oslcc/Qq8B9IoK/yf2q60dIeQsRSprwHos5efmmcjbtowgGdFIbeo0K Wr0HUvXsZz/Li/l64aFlTuz6ol0hmeZ9HFk/I= Received: by 10.101.73.8 with SMTP id a8mr6084289anl.39.1301000439638; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.145] (97-82-152-60.dhcp.hckr.nc.charter.com [97.82.152.60]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e24sm308050ana.2.2011.03.24.14.00.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D8BB0F9.4080601@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:00:41 -0400 From: Matthew Morgan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: emacs backspace question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:22:40 -0000 I've read a lot on the internet regarding the use of the backspace key in emacs, but the proposed solutions don't seem to be working for me. I just installed FreeBSD 8.1 in Virtualbox and installed emacs 23.2.1 by means of the package installer. Everything in emacs works great except the backspace key, which deletes forward instead of back like it should. I've found a lot of different things on the internet about it: * switched to bash instead of csh - didn't fix it, but I like bash better * M-x normal-erase-is-backspace-mode -toggling it once makes my backspace bring up the "help" command; toggling it again changes it back * different keymaps - I started out using us.iso.kbd (which exhibits the backspace issue, but other keys are right) - I tried us.emacs.kbd - backspace works right, but many other keys are mapped wrong (even letters and numbers) - I tried us.unix.kbd - backspace doesn't work right and neither do my control keys I also just noticed that when on the command line itself (outside of emacs) backspace deletes backward as it should, but so does delete! Is this something weird with virtualbox, or am I doing something wrong?