Re: Munging of del and backspace
Miles Bader writes:
> The reason you are confused is because you (apparently) think that `DEL' and
> `Delete' are the same thing; they are not. `DEL' is the ASCII DEL character,
> which since time immemorial has meant delete-backward-char in emacs.
> `Delete' is a labelled key on (some) keyboards, which usually means
> delete-char.
Uh, I should have mentioned I run under X.
> So you can think of `DEL' as the emacs abstraction for whatever key happens
> to delete the previous character on your keyboard, be it labelled BS, <--, or
For tty emacs, I would understand, but with X, it must be possible to
distinguish C-d and Delete, just as the <-- key does not bring up the
help, and tab is different from ^I etc.
> Rubout. Because emacs maintains this abstraction, your emacs keybindings
> should work on any device.
I.e. you can never make any use of more than basic tty capabilities?
And it's annoying that key bindings in emacs and xemacs have different
results.
/Micce
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