Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!vtserf!morpheus!frank From: frank@morpheus.UUCP (Frank McPherson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Decent Unix Editors!! (one man's opinion, anyway) Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 21:58:35 GMT References: <846.280ca9ab@vger.nsu.edu> <1991Apr25.083732.6664@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute Lines: 24 In article <1991Apr25.083732.6664@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > > sabotaging users whose destructive backspace key is not DEL but ^H by > using that for the hard wired (and nearly impossible to remap at edit > time) "help" key, > -- One solution (admittedly, not a great one) to the problem of Emacs using Delete instead of CTRL-H is to just dump the help functions. As you say, they're next to impossible to use, anyway. So, here's what you do to use CTRL-H (more popularly known as Backspace) for the purpose it was intended: add this line to the file .emacs in your home directory and it'll map the delete-backward-char function to the backspace key on your Amiga. Incidentally, the old assignment of delete-backward-char to the delete key is still around, so you can use either one. (define-key global-map "\C-h" 'delete-backward-char) -- Frank McPherson INTERNET : emcphers@fox.cs.vt.edu -- -- AmigaUUCP : uunet!vtserf!morpheus!frank --