Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!osc!jgk
From: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Customization for AT386 - Problems with DEL
Summary: The modes screw with it.
Message-ID: <1865@osc.COM>
Date: 15 Jan 90 22:47:24 GMT
References: <2044@orfeo.radig.de>
Reply-To: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane)
Organization: Object Sciences Corp., Menlo Park, CA
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I think the problem is that many modes redefine DEL.  I can see some reason
for doing this, but it's still pretty annoying.  If you really want to fix
this, you can use these statements:
	(define-key c-mode-map "\177" 'delete-char)
	(define-key emacs-lisp-mode-map "\177" 'delete-char)
Similarly for whatever other modes do this, although you should make sure
they're loaded first.

Note that you don't have to use unset-key before set-key.

It is a very good idea to make backspace not be the help key.  However, if you
do this you should have something be the help key.  I use C-\, because it's
not used for anything else and is fairly easy to type when necessary.  To make
things consistent, you should also do this:
	(setq help-char ?\C-\\)