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From: kondaman@aludra.usc.edu (Arjun Krishna Kondamani)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: how to use emacs with 'backspace' as 'delete'
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Date: 3 Feb 90 01:28:58 GMT
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To all you professional emacs programmers, a question from an amateur:

I login to my unix account with an ADDS 2020 terminal. The location of
the 'backspace' and 'delete' keys is such that I prefer to use the
'backspace' key to delete text rather than the 'delete' key itself. 

I have accomplished this in the shell region with my .cshrc file but
still haven't found a way to do so in emacs.

I have noticed though that 'backspace' translates to ^H which brings up
the help. 'Delete' translates to ^?.

I will be grateful to netters for their suggestions and comments.

--Arjun.
kondaman@castor.usc.edu@usc.edu 213-746-1151 (evening) 213-743-2666 (day)

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