On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:24:57PM -0700, Jim Osborn wrote: > I want to use Control-H to move the cursor to the left in Mutt's > line editor, as I have it in all my other tools. Since the default > action for ^H in the editor is backspace, I tried > > bind editor \ch noop > bind editor \ch backward-char > > to no avail---still get backspace, not backward-char. Then I tried > simply > > bind editor \ch noop > > and I STILL get backspace. I tried > > bind editor \010 noop > > and get the same backspace action from ^H. > > I can disable the <backspace> key with > > bind editor \177 noop > > but while that's interesting, it doesn't clear the way for \ch to > bind to backward-char. > > What's the secret to binding Control-H to the function I want? > > TIA, > > Jim >
Just in case it might be helpful: "bind editor \ch backward-char" works fine here, even without unbinding its previous action, so it seems that it isn't mutt fault. I would check the terminal definitions instead. Try console first. Wojciech Krygier -- Home is where the computer is plugged in.
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