oun@cl.bull.fr (Jean-Luc Oun) (12/07/90)
Could some kind soul tell me how to remap the keyboard sequence generated by the "Back space" button of a HP 9000/345 keyboard. Right now, the "Back space" generates the chareacter "^H". So in emacs 18.55, instead of deleting the last char, it just calls the help-for-help Emacs-lisp function. and it drives me crazy :-( :-( I would like the "Back space" generates another character than "^H", let's say "^?". I do not want to rebind by emacs lisp the "^H" key to backward-delete- char-untabify, neither backward-delete-char, just in order not to change the standard ^H binding of help-for-help. Thanks in advance for your hints and suggestions. Jean-Luc -- Jean-Luc Oun, e-mail: oun@cl.bull.fr -----------
walt@bcarh133.uucp (Walt Sullivan) (12/11/90)
In article <409@clbull.cl.bull.fr> oun@cl.bull.fr (Jean-Luc Oun) writes:
Could some kind soul tell me how to remap the keyboard sequence generated
by the "Back space" button of a HP 9000/345 keyboard.
Right now, the "Back space" generates the chareacter "^H". So in emacs
18.55, instead of deleting the last char, it just calls the help-for-help
Emacs-lisp function. and it drives me crazy :-( :-(
For exactly the same reason, I rebound my "Back Space" key to send DEL. I don't
know if this will help you, because my soultion works with X Windows (X11R2). In
mt .login file, I do:
xmodmap .keymap.km
where .keymap.km contains:
!
! Walt's xmodmap keymap modification file
!
! get rid of the stupid Caps Lock key
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
!
! make the Back space key send me a DEL
keycode 101 = Delete
You'll notice that I disable the Caps Lock key, too. I'm a clumsy typist at the
best of times, and was very tired of trying to hit CTRL-something and ending up
TYPING EVERYTHING ELSE IN CAPS!
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