Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!hplabsz!mayer From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: missing DEL key Keywords: keybinding, DEL key Message-ID: <2256@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> Date: 26 Aug 88 18:02:41 GMT References: <8079@condor.UUCP> Reply-To: mayer@hplabsz.UUCP (Niels Mayer) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 32 In article <8079@condor.UUCP> dms@condor.UUCP (Daniel M. Solis) writes: > > I'm using Gnu emacs on a VT-220 terminal, which has no DEL key. >(I.e., VT-220s have no DEL key; it's not that my particular terminal >is missing the key.) Therefore, when I try to use query-replace I >can't skip over an instance of the string. I have to quit the >query-replace and invoke it again. Is there some elegant way of >taking care of this problem. Try putting "(load "term/bobcat") in your ~/.emacs Even though "term/bobcat.el" is meant to correct for the HP bobcat keyboard's funky placement of the key, i find it useful to use on all terminals. "term/bobcat.el" simply swaps the bindings of to thus allowing the easy-to-hit backspace key to do backwards paging in mh-e, query-replace skipping, in addition to real honest-to-goodness backspacing; the key, which is often in hard to reach places even on the most common keyboards now becomes a key. Beware that the online gnu documentation on modes will still mention ^H as the help key. I think Stallman's battle for free software is a fine thing, however, his crusade to help the poor downtrodden key achieve superiority over the bourgeois key is full of hooey. By making ^H be the battle cry of the teeming masses of neophyte gnuemacs users seeking help, he is being duped by the conspiracy of doctrinaire seekers key-mnemonics at the expense of common sense. Help stamp out this sillyness now! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Niels Mayer -- hplabs!mayer -- mayer@hplabs.hp.com Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto, CA. *