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From: clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: control-h vs command-h: ???
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.100031.21816@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 90 14:00:31 GMT
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Question:  what do I do to make the "control" key on my Mac SE act
like the "command" key?  Specifically, I want control-h to act like
the "delete" key, as command-h does.

I know it's possible, because I've been doing it for a long time on
the SE in my office.  I never gave it a second thought until I acquired
a borrowed SE for use at home for a year, and discovered it insisted
on command-h instead of control-h.

These are both plain 1-Meg SE's with a 20 Meg hard drive, except that the
one at home -- the uncooperative one -- has a Dove upgrade to 2 Meg of
memory.  Both are running system 6.0.5, to which I recently upgraded them.
I can't find any suggestive INITs, nor anything on the Control Panel.

(Why do I want to do this?  My terminal emulator is "uw", which for reasons
I now forget won't let me use the "enter" key as an interrupt key.  So I use
"delete" for interrupt -- never did like control-C [and we'd have the same
problem if I did] -- and this reduces me to using control-h for character
delete in UNIX.  Out of habit I do the same in MS Word and when renaming
files on the desktop, etc.  The results are undesirable when what's expected
is really command-h!)
-- 
Jim Clarke  -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
  clarke@csri.toronto.edu  or  clarke@csri.utoronto.ca  //  (416) 978-4058