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From: steveo@WORLD.STD.COM (Steven W Orr)
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Subject: Help for del key redefinition
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Date: 13 Mar 91 13:07:30 GMT
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Could someone please help me with the redefinition of the delete key.
I want my emacs to use the kill-backward-chars on the delete key. The
redefinition is ignored when I put
  (global-set-key "\C-?" 'kill-backward-chars)
into my .emacs.
The best I have been able to do is to have a lot of 
  (local-set-key "\C-?" 'kill-backward-chars) 
sprinkled throughout my various mode initialization hooks.
Anyone got any ideas what the fix is?