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When my machines boot, they tell me that backspace is set to ^?.
Not sure where that comes from, but that is the regular one that works
everywhere here.
Paul
>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.
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