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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-?)
Regards,
David
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