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From: dieter (The Demented Teddy Bear)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: need a quickie macro
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Date: 23 Nov 88 03:54:10 GMT
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In article <64400001@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>, phil@uxh writes:
> 
> 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.

(define-key global-map "\b"     'backward-delete-char-untabify)
(define-key global-map "\eh"    'help-for-help)

Makes backspace the same as delete, help is now M-h (previously bound to
mark-paragraph, not something I use often).

Dieter
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