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In article <ETHANB.93Jan6163624@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu> ethanb@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu (Ethan Bradford) writes:
>In article <1ifcu5INNmn5@agate.berkeley.edu> pedro@eerc.berkeley.edu (Peter Clark) writes:
>   I am using emacs 18.58 on a SUN 4 (Sparc 1) with a type 4 keyboard.
>
>   I would like to remap the DEL key on the keypad from delete-backward-char
>   to delete-char.  I have tried in my .emacs
>   (global-set-key "DEL" 'delete-char)
>   (global-set-key "\DEL" 'delete-char)
>   etc. to no avail.
>
>To insert the delete key between the quotes, move there and type
>   C-Q <DEL>
>(were by <DEL> I mean pressing the DEL key).

Using "\C-?" should also work.  C-? is fairly standard notation for the DEL
character. 

However, this will not solve your problem, because most major modes redefine
the binding of the DEL character one of the variations of
delete-backward-char, like backward-delete-char-untabify, in the major mode
local map, which overrides the global map.

>   I did notice that I could do a 
>   M-x local-set-key DEL delete-char
>   while running emacs and this worked OK.

Which changed the binding in the active buffer at the time you executed the
local-set-key function.  Other buffers were not affected.

To change the binding in major modes that you use, you will have to use the
setup hook for each major mode and assign the hook to a function which
executes the local-set-key function to change the binding of DEL.
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