Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:00:08 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using META and DEL keys in console Message-ID: <42251018.3070102@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050302004013.GY73162@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050301194338.3a49611d@ale.varnet.bsd> <20050302002549.GX73162@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4225093F.8010707@mac.com> <20050302004013.GY73162@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 1 March 2005 at 19:30:55 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: >>Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>[ ... ] >> >>>>And C-d acts as DEL. >>> >>>That doesn't sound very likely, though I haven't played around with >>>the termcap entries. >> >>C-d is normally bound to delete-char, which performs forward >>deletion. Some people expect the DEL key to behave the same way... > > I get the impression that the original sender (whose attributions you > have removed) knows Emacs fairly well. Sorry, I normally try to leave two levels of attribution. [On the other hand, I did CC: the original poster, and the References: headers ought to suffice for anyone who wants to follow prior postings in the thread.] [ ... ] > Interestingly, I've just discovered that the DELETE key on my cursor > keypad is bound to c-d. So maybe that's what he was expecting. I think so, yes. If you map the Backspace key to DEL and the Delete key to C-d on a standard PC 101/104/whatever-key keyboard, you'll end up with something that does not break Emacs' usage of C-h for help and retains compatibility with the behavior that many people expect the Backspace and Delete keys to have. -- -Chuck
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