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From: swalton@well.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: DEL <-> ^H
Message-ID: <2095@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Nov-86 17:49:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 21 17:49:24 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Nov-86 22:18:23 EST
Reply-To: swalton@well.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton)
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Keywords: delete backspace GNU
Summary: How do I exchange them?

I would like to exchange the functionality of the backspace and delete
keys, since the former is much easier to reach than the latter on my
Tektronix 4105.  Is there an easy way to do this in GNU?  So far,
my .emacs looks like:

(define-key global-map "" 'help-command)
(global-set-key "\C-h" 'delete-backward-char)
(global-set-key "\e\C-h" 'backward-kill-word)
(global-set-key "\C-x\C-h" 'backward-kill-sentence)

(where the "" pair actually surrounds a literal delete character)
but this only does the trick in a few places.  In particular, in rmail
mode, delete still scrolls back through the current message, and there
is no way to get help.
	Thanks in advance.
				Steve Walton