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Article #188844Re: rebinding backspace key in gnuemacs (on PC)
From: Robert Claeson
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 06:44
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 06:44
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In article <1991Jun11.170307.29707@intellistor.com>, wicklund@intellistor.com (Tom Wicklund) writes: |> Unfortunately, the above just changes the key binding when editing |> text. It does not change the binking in various other modes (for |> instance, inside incremental search DEL backs up 1 match). The |> problem is trying to find all occurrences of DEL and changing them to |> \C-h. What's really needed is a method which can change ALL bindings |> of DEL to \C-h, but this probably requires an extra level of key |> translation or rewriting the other key binding to work off the current |> map (e.g. have incremental search bind to the "current |> delete-backward-char" key. Use the keyboard-translate-table. -- Robert Claeson Just because I am writing this doesn't mean that my employer agrees with me.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,13b328a7ef271661 X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-06-17 06:36:34 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!news.funet.fi!sunic!dg.se!robert From: robert@dg.se (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: Re: rebinding backspace key in gnuemacs (on PC) Message-ID: <1991Jun17.064401.2048@dg.se> Date: 17 Jun 91 06:44:01 GMT References: <8943@drutx.ATT.COM> <PETRILLI.91Jun6192752@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1991Jun11.170307.29707@intellistor.com> Sender: robert@dg.se (Robert Claeson) Reply-To: robert@dg.se (Robert Claeson) Organization: Data General AB, Kista, Sweden Lines: 20