Re: C-s and delete under Windows

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Ulrich Scholz <d7@thispla.net> wrote:
> Hi, under Linux, deleting while searching (C-s, type something, and
> then press delete) removes letters from the search string and
> continues to search.  Under Windows, the behavior is different: it
> ends the search and deletes characters from my file.
>
> How can I implement the Linux behavior under Windows?
>
> Maybe the problem is my .emacs on Windows. I use the following:
>
> (global-set-key [backspace] 'backward-delete-char-untabify)

Try starting from

  emacs -Q

I have not seen this problem (I am using windows).