[comp.emacs] Help for del key redefinition

steveo@WORLD.STD.COM (Steven W Orr) (03/13/91)

Subject:
Could someone please help me with the redefinition of the delete key.
I want my emacs to use the kill-backward-chars on the delete key. The
redefinition is ignored when I put
  (global-set-key "\C-?" 'kill-backward-chars)
into my .emacs.
The best I have been able to do is to have a lot of 
  (local-set-key "\C-?" 'kill-backward-chars) 
sprinkled throughout my various mode initialization hooks.
Anyone got any ideas what the fix is?