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Re: simple editor required
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Paul Edwards |
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Re: simple editor required |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:31:19 GMT |
"Kai Großjohann" <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> wrote in message
841xxzto54.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de">news:841xxzto54.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de...
> >> > (global-set-key (kbd "DEL") 'delete-char)
> >> > (global-set-key (kbd "DEL") (kbd "C-d"))
> >>
> >> What does it mean to not work? Does Emacs crash?
> >
> > No, it just has no effect. The DEL key remains bound to
> > delete-backward-char and keeps trying to delete the previous
> > character.
>
> Gah? How can this be? I mean, C-h l tells that the key in question
> is the DEL key. Hm.
>
> Is the statement really executed? Try putting (message "Hi there")
> (sit-for 3) before and after the statement to see if Emacs ever gets
> there.
Yes it does.
> Also try M-: to eval the statement from a running Emacs, to
> see if that has any effect.
just says "delete-char" doesn't do anything
> Hm. Oh! It could be that the key is not bound in the global map,
> but instead in some local map, instead. Try C-x b foo RET, which
> creates a buffer named foo in fundamental mode. Maybe the DEL key
> works in that mode?
created buffer, but no effect.
from another post...
>>>>(add-hook 'c-common-mode-hook
>>>> (lambda () (local-set-key "\C-?" 'delete-char)))
had no effect when editting .c file.
> I think that emacs-lisp-mode or lisp-interaction-mode have their own
> bindings for DEL, so you'd have to do like
>
> (define-key emacs-lisp-mode-map (kbd "DEL") 'delete-char)
AND THE WINNER IS!!! :-)
Thanks a lot for figuring that out Kai.
And since I now use text mode for everything, all I need is...
(define-key text-mode-map (kbd "DEL") 'delete-char)
and it works!
For technical curiosity though, why was everyone convinced
the global-set-key would work? And indeed it did work on
Xemacs. I would have thought this situation would have
come up all the time for the presumably large number of
people who want that behaviour of DEL doing a delete-char.
I'll now go back and check the relatively minor problems I
have within text mode.
BFN. Paul.
- Re: simple editor required, (continued)
- Re: simple editor required, Kai Großjohann, 2003/06/10
- Re: simple editor required, Paul Edwards, 2003/06/11
- Re: simple editor required, Kai Großjohann, 2003/06/11
- Re: simple editor required, Stefan Monnier, 2003/06/11
- Re: simple editor required, Paul Edwards, 2003/06/12
- Re: simple editor required, Kai Großjohann, 2003/06/12
- Re: simple editor required, Paul Edwards, 2003/06/12
- Re: simple editor required, Kai Großjohann, 2003/06/12
- Re: simple editor required,
Paul Edwards <=
- Re: simple editor required, Sam Halliday, 2003/06/16
- Re: simple editor required, Paul Edwards, 2003/06/17
- Re: simple editor required, Kai Großjohann, 2003/06/17
- Re: simple editor required, Kai Großjohann, 2003/06/16
- Re: simple editor required, Stefan Monnier, 2003/06/16
- Re: simple editor required, Kai Großjohann, 2003/06/16
- Re: simple editor required, Paul Edwards, 2003/06/17
- Re: simple editor required, Kevin Dziulko, 2003/06/17
- Re: simple editor required, Stefan Monnier, 2003/06/17
- Re: simple editor required, Paul Edwards, 2003/06/17