xmodmap -pk xmodmap: unable to open display ''
and xev I can't find at all.
Although I haven't tried, I suspect that I'm not going to have much luck getting an X session across their firewall AND mine. Is there some other way to do this?
Joe Corneli wrote:
which means that backspace has already been mapped to C-d (that's why I suspected this required some sort of keymap wizardry). While I could live with C-d and Backspace both meaning delete-backward-char,
I'd really rather have C-d continue to mean "delete forward" like it ought to.
Hm... you got me there. It sounds like maybe there's a site file being loaded (in which case you can try the command line option --no-site-file when you start Emacs, to the annoyance of your sysadmins) *or* maybe you've just had some bad luck at the xmodmap level if it is your own system. In any event, you can try changing the behavior of the backspace key around using xmodmap (the analogue of `global-set-key') and xev (the analogue of the help and command history commands I showed you). See the man pages.
2) your syntax doesn't work in my version: If I try
(global-set-key "^d" 'backward-delete-char-untabify)
I get an initialization error "Key sequence ^ d uses invalid prefix characters"
Did you copy the string from the *Command History* buffer? You don't want an asciicircum and a "d" -- you want the "control d character". You can insert this character without going through the help/command-history hoops just by pressing C-q C-d.
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