RE: Emacs works differently within X and outside
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> >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:
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> Alan> If I run emacs so that it creates an x-window to run in then
> Alan> the behaviour is different. In this case DEL and BKSP both
> Alan> work the same and delete the character to the left of the
> Alan> cursor).
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> Alan> Any ideas?
> Well, I am not sure about emacs, but I do know for sure in
> xemacs. There is a setting, which changes this behaviour.
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> There is a setting called "Delete Key Deletes forward" which controls
> this behaviour.
There is also a little diddy called pc-mode that does this and a few
other things. Look at /usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/emulations/pc-mode.el.
Put (pc-bindings-mode) in your .emacs to use it (if you think you want
the other stuff it does). This is for gnu emacs...
jim
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