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From: phil@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: need a quickie macro
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Date: 21 Nov 88 04:36:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!phil    Nov 20 22:36:00 1988


I have the GNU Emacs manual and am starting to learn the GNU version of Emacs.
I like it MUCH better than UNIPress Emacs.

There is, however, one thing I'd like to fix ASAP that I hope a macro will
easily do.  I'd like to make ^H (backspace) perform a backspace function
(e.g. move to previous character and delete it).  The help function could
be mapped to some other key.

Can someone write a quickie macro to do this one thing?  I have NO macros
in affect in my directory at the present.  I intend to learn to do this
for myself (as opposed to TOPS-20 where I first learned Emacs and never
intended to write macros in (ugh) TECO).  I could also use this macro as
a simple starting point and example.

Later I'd like to make ^S and ^Q do flow control.  I bet that would be
a little trickier.