Re: Backspace key

[Aaron Brashears <aaron@lns.com>]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:01:11PM +0000, Glyn Millington wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:36:37PM +0000, thus spake Glyn Millington:
> > 
> > I've been upgrading things from Woody -  a foolhardy venture but everythng
> > went well amd works beautifully apart from my backspace key which now
> > deletes the next character just like the delete key.  I really want it to
> > delete backwards - this is almost as bad as those first heady days when I
> > discovered Emacs!
> > 
> > Can't find the way on this - can anyone point me in the right direction ?
> 
> What an idiot, found the answer to my own question 3 seconds after posting -
> so in case anyone else is wondering....
> 
> 
>  xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"


Thanks for finding that. Just after the last update, this problem
popped up for me too. Any idea what the change is and why the change
was made?