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Nick R Colakovic (colakovi@en.ecn.purdue.edu) wrote:

> I have recently installed the Unofficial HP Emacs distribution on a HP
> 700 series machine running HP/UX 8.0.
> 	I succeeded in compiling emacs on this system but am faced
> with a problem in using it in X.  The system uses HP's VUE X
> environment.  The problem is that the keyboard's backspace (delete) is
> mapped to ^H.  This means that while in a X window pressing the
> backspace key results in calling up the emacs help system.  Unlike
> most keyboards that I have used, there appears to be no delete or
> backspace key mapped to ^?.  

     If you are really using the "unofficial HP GNU Emacs", you should
not have this problem.  The code is written such that backspace does
indeed backspace, and not bring up the help system.  You did install the
zillions of emacs-lisp files, didn't you (and put them in the correct
place)?  The Emacs binary loads many emacs-lisp files at runtime (if
they are needed, and only as they are needed); if Emacs can't access
them, then all sorts of bad things can happen (like backspace not
backspacing).

     This could also occur if you have intentionally remapped backspace
to DEL (instead of leaving backspace as backspace -- the default).  If
you've done this, you're on your own.

     -- Darryl Okahata
	Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com

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