> However, there is still one thing needed to make it behave just
> like Notepad. Let's say my cursor is positioned immediately following a tab
> character. When I hit Backspace (I believe that causes a function
> "backward-delete-char" to be called), it converts that tab character into a
> bunch of spaces, then deletes the last space. I would really like Backspace
> to just delete the tab character. Is there any way to do this? I suppose
> I'd have to rebind Backspace to a function other than backward-delete-char,
> but I'm not sure which function.
Is it bound to backward-delete-char? Or is it bound to
backward-delete-char-untabify? I believe the former does what you
want.