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Subject: remapping ^H in gnu emacs
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From: mt00@eurotherm.co.uk (Martin Tomes)
Date: 22 Oct 90 08:02:15 GMT
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The real answer is to remap your keyboard to generate DEL from the
backspace key.  This is particularly simple for users of X, but can
usually be done from terminals.

This is an extract from a program we use to set up UK keyboards.  I
only show the bit which sets up the delete keys.  This program runs on
Interactive UNIX, I have no idea if it works on Intel.

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/at_ansi.h>
#include <sys/kd.h>

main ()

{

	struct kbentry keydef;

keydef.kb_table = 0x00;
keydef.kb_index = 0x4B;
keydef.kb_value = 


/* Make backspace delete. */
/* set Normal key stroke    */
keydef.kb_table = 0x00;  /* table 0x00 = normal key stroke */
keydef.kb_index = 14;    /* index = scan code */
keydef.kb_value = 0x7f;  /* value = hex valur of ascii char */
ioctl(0,KDSKBENT,& keydef);

/* set shifted key stroke   */
keydef.kb_table = 0x01;
keydef.kb_value = 0x7f;
ioctl(0,KDSKBENT,& keydef);

/* set altered key stroke   */
keydef.kb_table = 0x02;
keydef.kb_value = 0x7f;
ioctl(0,KDSKBENT,& keydef);

}
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Martin Tomes

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