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From: krulwich@ils.nwu.edu (Bruce Krulwich)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Making BS = erase.
Keywords: BS DEL ^H ^?
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Date: 6 Mar 90 18:37:50 GMT
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In-reply-to: rlp@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Bob Powell)

In article <22573@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, rlp@beach (Bob Powell) writes:
>Is there any entry I can make in my .login, .cshrc,
>or .emacs files to get emacs to accept the backspace,
>by itself, as a "normal" delete key?

Try:

(global-set-key "" 'backward-delete-char-untabify)

Or maybe BACKWARD-DELETE-CHAR if you don't want it to untabify.


Bruce