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Re: rebinding backspace key in gnuemacs (on PC)

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From: Robert Claeson
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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