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Re: Emacs reads both DEL and Backspace as DEL
From: |
Dan Kalikow |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs reads both DEL and Backspace as DEL |
Date: |
28 Jan 2003 01:18:30 GMT |
User-agent: |
Halime (MacOSX)/1.0b1 |
Since we seem to be solving key-binding problems here... :-) I'm running Gnu
Emacs (I think 21.3.50, the Cocoa version?) on Mac OSX 10.2.3 on a
TI-PowerBook.
My problem is related but (I think) different. My kbd doesn't have two flavors
of DEL -- only one DEL key. Most non-Emacs apps on the laptop run
"delete-previous-char" for DEL and "delete-next-char" for
hold-down-Function-key-and-then-press-DEL. This is an OK price to pay for a
laptop keyboard, IMHO. However if I run m-X describe-key for DEL, Emacs says
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DEL runs the command View-scroll-page-backward
which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `view'.
It is bound to DEL.
(View-scroll-page-backward &optional LINES)
Scroll "page size" or prefix LINES lines backward in View mode.
See also `View-scroll-page-forward'.
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for m-X describe-key for Function-DEL, Emacs says
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DEL (translated from <kp-delete>) runs the command View-scroll-page-backward
which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `view'.
It is bound to DEL.
(View-scroll-page-backward &optional LINES)
Scroll "page size" or prefix LINES lines backward in View mode.
See also `View-scroll-page-forward'.
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to these unpracticed eyes, Emacs appears to think they're virtually the same.
Any ideas (or pointers to ideas) on what I should put in my .emacs file to
tease apart forward- from backward-delete functions? TIA for any advice.