Decent Unix Editors!! (one man's opinion, anyway)

[Frank McPherson]

In article <1991Apr25.083732.6664 at zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian at zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>
>  sabotaging users whose destructive backspace key is not DEL but ^H by
>  using that for the hard wired (and nearly impossible to remap at edit
>  time) "help" key,
>

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One solution (admittedly, not a great one) to the problem of Emacs using
Delete instead of CTRL-H is to just dump the help functions.  As you
say, they're next to impossible to use, anyway.

So, here's what you do to use CTRL-H (more popularly known as Backspace) for
the purpose it was intended:  add this line to the file .emacs in your
home directory and it'll map the delete-backward-char function to the
backspace key on your Amiga.  Incidentally, the old assignment of
delete-backward-char to the delete key is still around, so you can use
either one.

(define-key global-map "\C-h" 'delete-backward-char)


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