Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This is minor as policy issues go, but I thought that having a few others consider this before I do anything might be a good idea.
> Now that X has been updated to properly distinguish between the backspace > key and the delete key, both work properly when emacs is run in an xterm > or on a console window. > > However, when emacs is run so it opens its own window under X, the backspace > key and the delete key behave identically -- they both remove the character > before the cursor. The delete key should remove the character under the > cursor. OK, I've investigated. Under 20.3 at least, emacs treats (under X) the delete and backspace keys as function keys named delete and backspace. At startup they are both assigned the same low-level code, DEL, in the function-key-map, but that assignment only applies if there are no other subsequent, more specific assignments. Given that, you can get delete to delete the character under the cursor like this: (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char) Now the only question is, should I make this the default Debian configuration? -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
