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In article <RUSTY.91Jan14165956@belch.Berkeley.EDU> rusty@belch.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright) writes:

>I have a friend who is using some terminal emulation program on an
>Apple II and it can't send control-h.  When he presses control-h it
>sends delete.  (...)
> (...keyboard translation elisp code...)
>Does anybody have any suggestions as to what key I could swap delete
>with instead of backspace since his terminal program can't generate a
>backspace?

Wow, I think that's a bit of a complicated way to do what you want.  If
you're just trying to get GNUEmacs to recognize some different keys for
deleting characters and help, you can add the following to your .emacs file:

   (global-set-key "\^?" 'delete-backward-char)
   (global-set-key "\^_" 'help-command)

This will bind the delete key to the command for deleting characters - no
translation is necessary.  This also rebinds the help command to the
keystroke Ctrl-_ (Control-Underscore) rather than it's default Ctrl-H.  This
is the help key sequence in many older versions of emacs (which is why I
choice it for myself), but you can choose any key sequence you prefer.

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