From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 10 00:37:52 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA11839 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 May 1995 00:37:52 -0700 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA11833 for ; Wed, 10 May 1995 00:37:51 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA17566; Wed, 10 May 1995 00:37:49 -0700 Message-Id: <199505100737.AAA17566@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Terry Lee cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Backspace and delete problem in X/Netscape In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 May 1995 22:32:15 PDT." Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 00:37:48 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Hi, > >I'm sure this question has been asked before, so I apologize for the >extra mail baggage. > >But... I'm using the us.iso.kbd keymap so that the backspace key is >really delete. As I'm sure most of you know, this get's emacs working >right, but netscape is now screwed up. > >Is there any way to fix this? Sure, don't use del as your backspace character. Just do something like this in your .emacs: ;; key bindings (global-set-key "\C-h" 'backward-delete-char) (setq search-delete-char (string-to-char "\C-h")) (global-set-key "\C-_" 'help-command) (setq help-char (string-to-char "\C-_")) > >Best regards, > >Terry > >I N T E R N E T Terry Lee, Technical Director >D E S I G N 745 Stanford Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94306 >G R O U P 415 424 0747 voice 415 424-0751 fax >http://www.mall.net terryl@cs.stanford.edu http://www.mall.net/terry > > -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================