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Subject: DEL key
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Date: 15 Oct 90 17:33:27 GMT
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   (global-set-key "DEL" 'help-for-help) gives me an error in init file.

Try 
	(global-set-key "\177" 'help-for-help)

The problem is that "DEL" is not *really* the name of any key (even
though Emacs will tell you things like `DEL runs the command
delete-backward-char').   To find out more about how to refer to keys
in the keymap-setting commands, read the Emacs lisp manual (available
from prep.ai.mit.edu {or from me, if you don't have Internet access}).

"\177" is an example of one way of representing a key.  177 is the
octal code for the delete key.  You could just as well use "\C-?" or
"^?".
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