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From: campbell@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Heather Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Novice question: Delete key on keyboard
Message-ID: <4310138@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
Date: 21 Sep 90 00:35:23 GMT
References: <MULLER.90Sep18095129@molecule.src.umd.edu>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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If you only want to swap the BACKSPACE and DELETE keys within emacs, put the
following in your .emacs file.

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(let ((the-table (make-string 128 0)))
  (let ((i 0))
    (while (< i 128)
      (aset the-table i i)
      (setq i (1+ i))
      )
    )
  ;; Swap ^H and DEL
  (aset the-table ?\177 ?\^h)
  (aset the-table ?\^h ?\177)
  (setq keyboard-translate-table the-table)
  )
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Heather Campbell

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