Lo, on Thursday, June 7, Andrew D Dixon did write: > HI All, > Does anyone know how to change the keybindings in emacs? Specifically > I'd like to make my Backspace key delete the character before the cursor > (seems like a natural thing to me) instead of what it's doing now (which > is being wierd).
First, which version of emacs? FSF emacs or XEmacs? Second, what exactly is backspace doing now? Third, are you running under X or a console? My setup (XEmacs 21.1, under X) can be reproduced by adding the following to your .emacs: (global-set-key [BS] 'delete-backward-char) (global-set-key [DEL] 'backward-or-forward-delete-char) (setq delete-key-deletes-forward nil) ;; Note that these should be defaults under Debian. And set your keyboard up so that the plastic bump labeled `backspace' generates the BackSpace keysym, and the plastic bump labeled `delete' generates the Delete keysym. Then, in XEmacs, backspace will delete the character just before point, and delete will delete the character just after point. Richard
