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Started by David Barzilai
Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:55
Emacs problem
Author: David Barzilai
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:55
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:55
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Dear fellow gnu-supporters,
I have recently been attempting to use the gnu version of
emacs but have encountered a major difficulty: My erase
character has been interpreted as "delete" rather than
"backspace." Please note that my terminal emulation is
vt102 on my IBM-compatible xt computer. I have thus
far been unable to successfuly employ/find the
appopriate settings using the seterm and term commands.
I hope I will not be forced to program my communications
software to interpret the backspace key as a delete
key because I am using "backspace" as my delete
character on all of my accounts.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to my problem.
Please accept my sincere appoligies if I have inadertantly
posted it to the wrong forum.
Please send repy's to "cb147@cleveland.freenet.edu" to
save bandwidth, unless you think the answer would be
useful to other readers of this newsgroup.
Thanks again.
Sincerely,
David
Re: Emacs problem
Author: Kevin Gallagher
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:50
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:50
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In article <1jq1clINNqk2@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cb147@cleveland.freenet.edu (David Barzilai) writes: >I have recently been attempting to use the gnu version of >emacs but have encountered a major difficulty: My erase >character has been interpreted as "delete" rather than >"backspace." Please note that my terminal emulation is >vt102 on my IBM-compatible xt computer. You did not identify the vt102 emulator you are using, which makes it harder to respond. By default, the PC Backspace key transmits a C-h character. Entering a CTRL-Backspace key conbination transmits a DEL character, which not too many people realize. (The PC Del key does NOT transmit a DEL character, by the way.) Emacs, by default, uses the DEL character as an erase character. When IBM designed the PC keyboard, it copied the Apple II use of C-h as an erase character, instead of using DEL, which was becoming the more accepted character to use. Digital Equipent uses the DEL character as an erase character in its editors and its Delete key on its VT terminals (in the same position as the PC Backspace key is located) generates a DEL character. The more recent versions of GNU Emacs come with a lisp file called bobcat.el which switches the GNU Emacs interpretation of C-h and DEL. It uses the GNU Emacs keyboard translation table to accomplish this. Once loaded, GNU Emacs will treat C-h as if a DEL were entered and DEL as if a C-h were entered. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Gallagher kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org OR ...!uunet!digi!kgallagh DSC Communications Corporation Addr: MS 152, 1000 Coit Rd, Plano, TX 75075 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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