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In article <1ifcu5INNmn5@agate.berkeley.edu>, pedro@eerc.berkeley.edu
(Peter Clark) writes:
|> Hi all,
|> 
|> 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.
|> 
|> I did notice that I could do a 
|> M-x local-set-key DEL delete-char
|> while running emacs and this worked OK.
|> 
|> I've looked in the FAQ, I've tried everything, please help explain this!!!
|> 
|> Thanks for all hints and pointers!
|> 
|> Cheers, Peter Clark
|> pedro@eerc.berkeley.edu


The reason global-set-key doesn't work is that your DEL key (\C-?) is
overridden locally by each of the modes.  If you want to change it,
you have to do it with mode hooks.  For example:

(defun reset-del ()
  (local-set-key "\C-?" 'delete-char))

(setq text-mode-hook 'reset-del)

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