If you watch your boot sequence, there's a message that
goes by about how your backspace key has been mapped to
DEL. That's why it doesn't work in EMACS - both keys
send the same character code.
Like you, I like have two different kinds of delete in
EMACS, and I've been thinking about digging around and
figuring out how to change the setting, but I haven't
had a chance to yet.
--
Michael Heinz, Java Certified Programmer
206 Debbie Lane, Phoenixville, PA 19460
> I'm having trouble with backspace under X-Windows. It works for
> some apps (kvt, xterm), but not others (emacs, rxvt). When it doesn't
> work, it behaves like "delete" instead - it deletes the character under
> the cursor, when I want it to delete the character to the left of the
> cursor. And in those cases the "delete" key works the same way. I'd be
> happy enough to fix it for emacs alone, though I'd really rather know if
> there's some X-Windows global setting I can use.
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
> P.S. Looked like this has come up before in the archives, but there was
> never a satisfactory answer. "stty erase" does not work. In all cases
> things work fine outside X, and I tried 4 Window Mangers.
>
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