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From: mayer@hplabsc.UUCP (Niels Mayer)
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Subject: Re: DEL/^H switch in GNU EMACS?
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Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 21:27:06 EDT
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Try doing (load "term/bobcat") in your .emacs file.
In fact, that file (...dist-18.xx/lisp/term/bobcat.el) uses the
keyboard translate table to perform the swap as mentioned in a
previous article. Here's the file.... note the amazing lack of any
copyright bogosity in the preamble. 

-----
;;; HP terminals usually encourage using ^H as the rubout character

(let ((the-table (make-string 128 0)))
  (let ((i 0))
    (while (< i 128)
      (aset the-table i i)
      (setq i (1+ i))))
  ;; Swap ^H and DEL
  (aset the-table ?\177 ?\^h)
  (aset the-table ?\^h ?\177)
  (setq keyboard-translate-table the-table))
-----

I load this into site-init.el in most versions of gnuemacs that I have
running.... I even find it useful for non hp keyboards such as the
Zenith/Heath 19/29, Sun 1/2/3, and MicrovaxII's that plague the
Stanford campus. I am conditioned to use ^H as backspace and
mnemonics don't make sense when your brain runs on behaviourism.

	-- Niels.