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From: evp@lewey.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: DEL <-> ^H
Message-ID: <418@lewey.AIT.COM>
Date: Sat, 22-Nov-86 19:39:10 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 22 19:39:10 1986
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Organization: American Information Technology, Cupertino, CA
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> 
> 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.....

The way I've been doing this is to exchange the ^H and DEL keys with the
key map (I didn't invent the trick, but it works):

; reverse ^H and RUBOUT in keymap
(setq keyboard-translate-table
      "\000\^a\^b\^c\^d\^e\^f\^g\177\^i\^j\^k\^l\^m\^n\^o\^p      <<<
\^q\^r\^s\^t\^u\^v\^w\^x\^y\^z\033\034\035\036\037\040\041\042    <<<
\043\044\045\046\047\050\051\052\053\054\055\056\0570123456789    <<<
\072\073\074\075\076\077@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\133\134\135   <<<
\136\137\140abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\173\174\175\176\^h")


Note that the lines marked with <<< must be concatenated without
newlines or spaces.  This remapping causes all instances of ^H to be
replaced with DEL (and vice versa) before being mapped into commands,
so it's independent of mode.  The help key is always DEL, and the
backspace-style commands use ^H (^H = delete-backward-char, ESC-^H =
backward-kill-word, ^X-^H = backward-kill-sentence.)  A vagely
annoying side-effect is that the info and help commands don't know
about the swap and report the wrong key mappings.
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Ed Post   {hplabs,voder,pyramid}!lewey!evp
American Information Technology
10201 Torre Ave. Cupertino CA 95014
(408)252-8713
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Ed Post   {hplabs,voder,pyramid}!lewey!evp
American Information Technology
10201 Torre Ave. Cupertino CA 95014
(408)252-8713