Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ultra.dec.com!ellis From: ellis@ultra.dec.com (David Ellis) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: RE: missing DEL key Message-ID: <8808311005.AA03561@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 29 Aug 88 16:03:00 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 39 Dan Solis (dms@condor.genrad.com) 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 also notice that global keymap bindings are not valid when > executing a function. For example, I have the arrow keys bound to the > appropriate lisp functions (previous-line, next-line,...) and they > work just fine when I'm moving around the file. When I'm executing a > function, however, their bindings are not in force. For example, when > executing incremental-search I can stop the search with ^N, which is > the standard binding for next-line, but my down-arrow key, which is > also bound to next-line, is not recognized. First, there *is* a DEL key on the VT-220 keyboard. It's the key just above RETURN, with the left-pointing hollow arrow containing an "x" (looks like "