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From: c30845@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.JUNET (c30845)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: the DEL key from hell
Message-ID: <1975@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.JUNET>
Date: 21 May 88 05:19:20 GMT
Organization: Computer Center, University of Tokyo, Japan.
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Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.7 of Wed Apr  6 1988 on tansei (berkeley-unix)


I am a fairly new user to Emacs (version 18.47).  I cannot
send a DEL from my terminal to the host machine (the network
captures them on the way).   

I've side-stepped this by using define-key to assign an unused
control character to \177.   This works fine except in
an incremental search.   Instead of backing up a character,
I drop out of the search.   Is this caused by the read-char
function returning the original keystroke and not the mapping?
Can it be fixed?   Is there another solution?

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Keith Rowe                                    Naito Lab.  Tech. U. of Nagaoka
c30845@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.junet   "God keep me from ever completing anything."