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It was Thursday, August 14, 2003 when David Wheeler took the soap box, saying: : On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 09:09 AM, Casey West wrote: : : >Dude, seriously, when I tell you I want backspace to delete characters : >preceding the cursor I bloody well mean it! Why then, *WHY*, do you : >insist on doing nothing useful when I hit backspace when not running : >under X? You can get it right under X, and oh so horribly wrong : >otherwise. I don't want the help when I hit backspace I want the : >frelling character to disappear. : > : >I've easily tried every configuration option known to man, woman, and : >beast. There is no answer. All further proposed answers will be wrong; : >especially the ones that insist I should stop using the broken emacs : >mode, or emacs all together. There is no solution, we are at an : >impasse. : >Go screw, cperl-mode. : : Well, here's another wrong solution, then, although it works for me : some of the time: : : ;; This setting is mainly for using emacs in the shell. : ;; It makes the backspace key work correctly. : (keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-?) It totaly didn't not work! Thanks! Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with VM/CMS IBM shoots you in the foot.There's stuff above here
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