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From: fred@prisma.cv.ruu.nl (Fred Appelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: mwm vs. emacs
Message-ID: <fred.660469601@prisma>
Date: 6 Dec 90 07:46:41 GMT
References: <754@parcplace.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Utrecht, 3D Computer Vision The Netherlands
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In <754@parcplace.com> khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) writes:

>Mwm on HP9000s3xx/HPUX 7.0 wants to reserve DELETE to popup window menus.
>GNU Emacs wants to use DELETE for deleting the character left of the
>cursor and BACKSPACE (control-H) for online help.

You can easily define the settings of the DELETE key in you .mwmrc file.
Look for a line which starts with:

	Shift<Key>Escape

This is the line which defines the behaviour of mwm when pressing the
DELETE key. If you remove it, I guess your problems have disappeared.

	Fred
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