Re: backspace key binding!!

[gebser]

This should be a FAQ or in a readme or something.  Anyway, it's a common 
question.  Anyway....

Put the lines below into your ~/.emacs file and restart emacs:

;; Translate `C-h' to <DEL>.
(keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-?)
;; Translate <DEL> to `C-h'.
(keyboard-translate ?\C-? ?\C-h)


Happy Chinese New Year,
Enjoy,
ken

Stevens, Brigham at 10:40 (UTC-0800) on Thu, 30 Jan 2003 said:

= 
= I just got a new linux server running.... It has emacs and I use it
= under ssh..
= 
= I don't know the emacs version, but this is probably an easy generic
= question....
= 
= The backspace key is bound to some awful help command, and it won't
= backup and delete characters like it is supposed to!! It is really bad
= because when I hit backspace the screen splits and this page comes up,
= and it totally ruins whatever I was typing...
= 
= I do not have a special .emacs or anything, I am only running the emacs
= defaults.
= 
= ALSO, I want the DELETE key to be bound to forward delete char... 
= 
= ALSO, I would like to configure my root account to use all the settings
= from a user account - is there any way to do this? I guess that is more
= of a unix/linux question...
= 
= Thanks for any help!
= 

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