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From: moore%cdr.utah.edu.uucp@utah-gr.UUCP (Tim Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: the DEL key from hell
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Date: 22 May 88 02:58:50 GMT
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In article <1975@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.JUNET> c30845@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.JUNET (c30845) writes:
>
>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
>
>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,

A more general way to redefine keys is to use the (almost)
undocumented keyboard-translate-table. This a string M characters
long; characters with ascii codes < M get mapped to the character at
that position in the string (starting at 0). As an example, here's
code from my .emacs file to map DEL to ^h (backspace) and bind help to
something else:

;;; map \^h to delete
(setq keyboard-translate-table "\0\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\177")
(define-key global-map "\M-?" 'help-command)
(define-key global-map "\M-?a" 'apropos)

Hope this helps.

			-Tim Moore
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