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From: bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: YA BS/DEL Comment (Re: gnumacs bindings)
Message-ID: <7243@reed.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 04:10:50 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 19 04:10:50 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 15:47:20 EDT
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Reply-To: bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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Summary: my fingers want to type (literally) ^H

About half the terminals in the world send ^? '\177' DEL and the other half
send ^H '\010' BS when you press the fat key near the upper right corner
designed to backspace and delete the character under the cursor.  On UN*X,
BS is the natural choice, plus the key combination <ctl>-h is easy to find
and press on any keyboard I've ever used.  So, I've trained myself to type a
literal ^H for backspacing.  Which works fine, except on Macintoshes, and in
GNU Emacs.  (BTW, I also type ^[ for ESC, since that one also tends to be
hard to find and generate on weird keyboards).
						Bart Massey
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