Re: unexpected Del behaviour after C-d binding

[Dani Barral]

>>Stefan Monnier writes:
>>
>>>>>>> "Dani" == Dani Barral <d.barral@staffs.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>> Now everytime I press Del next-line is executed. However C-h Del 
>>returns:
>>> <delete> runs the command "^D"
>>>     which is a keyboard macro.
>>
>>
>>This is not part of the default config, so it must come from your 
>>.emacs or the default.el or site-start.el files (or you're running a 
>>modified version of Emacs as is too often the case with standard 
>>distributions not able to resist the temptation to "fix" things 
>>without understanding the implications).
>>
>>Try to start your emacs with `emacs -q --no-site-file' and see if
>>the problem is still there.

You're right. That binding was in /etc/emacs/site-start.el

(Xlaunch (define-key global-map [(delete)] "\C-d"))

which is the mandrake configuration file for emacs. From this I 
understand rewritting

(Xlaunch (define-key global-map [(delete)] 'delete-char))

is more appropiate isn't it?


Thanks also to Barry for reminding that delete-char exists.

Dani