Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!maytag!himacdon From: himacdon@maytag.uwaterloo.ca (Hamish Macdonald) Subject: Re: Decent Unix Editors!! (one man's opinion, anyway) In-Reply-To: frank@morpheus.UUCP's message of 25 Apr 91 21: 58:35 GMT Message-ID: <1991Apr25.235247.27948@maytag.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@maytag.waterloo.edu (News Owner) Organization: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario References: <846.280ca9ab@vger.nsu.edu> <1991Apr25.083732.6664@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 23:52:47 GMT Lines: 26 >>>>> On 25 Apr 91 21:58:35 GMT, >>>>> In message , >>>>> frank@morpheus.UUCP (Frank McPherson) wrote: Frank> So, here's what you do to use CTRL-H (more popularly known as Frank> Backspace) for the purpose it was intended: add this line to Frank> the file .emacs in your home directory and it'll map the Frank> delete-backward-char function to the backspace key on your Frank> Amiga. Incidentally, the old assignment of Frank> delete-backward-char to the delete key is still around, so you Frank> can use either one. Frank> (define-key global-map "\C-h" 'delete-backward-char) The better solution is to swap BS and DEL at the lowest levels of emacs input, using the keyboard-translate table. This lets all emacs code transparently think its getting a DEL, when what you are typing is CTRL-H. I'm not going to say how here, but if anyone wants to know, they can send me email. Hamish. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- himacdon@maytag.uwaterloo.ca watmath!maytag!himacdon