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From: michael@pbinfo.UUCP (Michael Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Help with remapping C-h in GNU Emacs
Message-ID: <211@corona.pb>
Date: 26 Apr 88 17:14:32 GMT
References: <1512@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM> <179@pyrdc.UUCP>
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, FB17/Informatik
Lines: 40
Keywords: control-h keymap help-command

Neulich schrieb mike@pyrdc.UUCP (Mike Whitman):
  In article <1512@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM>, cliff@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM (Cliff Bamford) writes:
  > I'm running GNU emacs 17.57.30 in an environment in which control-h
  > usually (and unalterably) means "backwards-delete-character". I'd like
  > to establish another keystroke sequence as the "help-prefix" , and
  > make control-h mean backwards-delete-character so I can let my tactile
  > memory autopilot take over the correction of simple typos again. I've 
  > looked at the documentation and it seems to require changing global-map
  > which frankly scares me. What am I missing?
  > 
  Don't be too scared it is as easy as putting the following in your .emacs
  file.
  
  (global-set-key "\C-h" `delete-backward-char)
  
  hope this helps. Don't let the flames you will get for this question stop
  you from asking more, it's the only way to learn unless you can find a 
  EMACS wiz localy to help you out like I did. Have fun!!
  
If you want to have ^H in ALL places instead of a ^? (DELETE),
you should do something like (the place with the ^? is the interesting):

(setq keyboard-translate-table
      "\000\^a\^b\^c\^d\^e\^f\^g\^?\^i\^j\^k\^l\^m\^n\^o\^p\^q\^r\^s\^t\^u\^v\^w\^x\^y\^z\033\^s\035\^q")

BTW, that translates all ^\ to ^S and ^^ to ^q. if you don't like
it, replace the ^s and ^q by the right numbers.

Toget help, you can do:

(global-set-key "\^[h" 'help-command)

what puts the help command on ESC-H.

     Michael Schmidt

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