From: "Jeremy Fowler" <jfowler@westrope.com> Subject: RE: Emacs Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:55:37 -0600 Message-ID: <MFEGKJBMPCLPMMMBAACNOENJNMAA.jfowler@westrope.com>
Thanks, the .emacs worked.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duane Attaway [mailto:dattaway@attaway.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:13 PM
> To: Jeremy Fowler
> Cc: Kclug@Kclug. Org
> Subject: Re: Emacs
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
>
> > Anybody know how to change the delete key behavior in emacs? I find it
> > very annoying that my delete key is acting like a backspace key.
> > (Deleting from the left instead of the right)
>
> This is usually solved as a termcap issue. Many kinds of xterms go
> further by offering a menu item for swapping those keys.
>
> But I heard this works in your .emacs file
>
> (global-set-key [backspace] 'delete-backward-char)
> (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char)
>
> And if you want to create an .inputrc to do these in bash:
>
> <.inputrc>
>
> "\e[C": forward-char
> "\eOC": forward-char
> "\e[D": backward-char
> "\eOD": backward-char
> "\e[3~": delete-char
> "\e[1~": beginning-of-line
> "\e[4~": end-of-line
>
> To see what the keys send, type "cat -t", and press the keys you want to
> know about. After you press ENTER, the codes will be shown... more in the
> man bash page under "Readline Command Names"...
>
>
> choices, choices!
>