[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Jackson) wrote on 26.05.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> What we want is: > * `<--' always deletes the character to the left of the cursor. > * `Delete' always deletes to the right. > * `Control'+`H' produces help in Emacs, as before. > We want this to be true for the console, for X, and even if you use > rlogin or telnet to get from one system to another. Hmm. This only works as long as you don't come from a machine or terminal that uses those keys differently, of course. In which case, relying on terminfo and/or stty is probably the best you can do. > * Emacs is programmed to map KB_Backspace or the `stty erase' > character to delete-backward-char, and KB_Delete or kdch1 to > delete-forward-char, and ^H to help as always. Well, except if ^H happens to be stty erase or kdch1, in which case that assignment should probably have priority. Likewise, delete-backward-char should probably have priority over delete-forward-char, in the (hopefully unlikely) event that they collide. > * Some terminals have a `<--' key that cannot be made to produce > anything except ^H. On these terminals Emacs help will be > unavailable (assuming that the `stty erase' character takes > precedence in Emacs, and has been set correctly). Emacs won't be unavailable. Emacs help probably will, except if these terminals are able to do an F1. MfG Kai -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
