On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:47:17AM +0100, StÃphane Peron wrote: > But concerning the use of backspace key in emacs ? > Do you know why I have this problem only in mlterm ; I mean why when I press > backspace, emacs understand ctrl + h ?
backspace/delete/emacs help are an age old problem. The thing is ^h _is_ backspace (delete-previous-character), has been since vt100 (though they called it "delete"). Emacs among all its other perversions has mapped help to this key. An alternative backspace understood by many programs is ^?. But if you have backspace mapped so, it won't work as backspace in programs without special input processing. Try e.g. running just cat. The delete (delete-next-character) operation also has the alternatives ^d and ^[[3~. > The same for vi whith up and down arrows when I am in edit mode. Probably different escape codes for those keys and no proper terminfo entry. -- Tuomo
