Re: Emacs 20.4

[Stephan Engelke <engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de>]

Hi ,

Nic Ferrier writes:

> When running inside X windows (using latest GNOME and Enlightenment
> is WM) the DEL key and the deletechar key are mapped to the same key
> symbol.

This is perfectly normal (for Emacs, that is).  It's an Emacs/XEmacs
issue and not related to your X version or your windowmanger/desktop.

Add the following line to your ~/.emacs file or your site-start.el
file to make the delete key send DEL instead of Backspace.

     ;; DEL deletes to the right
     (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char)

Note: This may clobber some mode specific mappings for the delete key.

So long -- Stephan
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Stephan Engelke                                    engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de
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