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From: dankg@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Help needed with GNUemacs C-h
Summary: C-h is bound to 'help-for-help
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Date: 4 Jun 90 09:33:06 GMT
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In article <6143.266617fa@uwovax.uwo.ca> chet@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>With GNU Emacs 18.52.0 on a Sun OS 4.0x used via remote access, I would
>like to retain use of help facilities while disabling the connection
>between C-h and help-command (C-h is bound to the backspace key, and I
>don't believe I can change this).
>
>(global-set-key "\C-h" 'delete-backward-char) gives me use of the backspace
>key, but I have not been able to bind help-command to anything, nor to
>access any of the key combinations that C-h is a prefix for.
>
>Can anything be done? Any suggestions for rebinding if it can be done?
>(I had thought of M-? because of its use with Unisys Emacs.)

	Sure you can.  Just put

(clobal-set-key "\M-?" 'help-for-help)

	in your .emacs.  For detail, you can see $lisp/help.el where $lisp
is your emacs lisp directory.

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