phil@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (11/21/88)
I have the GNU Emacs manual and am starting to learn the GNU version of Emacs. I like it MUCH better than UNIPress Emacs. There is, however, one thing I'd like to fix ASAP that I hope a macro will easily do. I'd like to make ^H (backspace) perform a backspace function (e.g. move to previous character and delete it). The help function could be mapped to some other key. Can someone write a quickie macro to do this one thing? I have NO macros in affect in my directory at the present. I intend to learn to do this for myself (as opposed to TOPS-20 where I first learned Emacs and never intended to write macros in (ugh) TECO). I could also use this macro as a simple starting point and example. Later I'd like to make ^S and ^Q do flow control. I bet that would be a little trickier.
dieter (The Demented Teddy Bear) (11/23/88)
In article <64400001@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>, phil@uxh writes: > > There is, however, one thing I'd like to fix ASAP that I hope a macro will > easily do. I'd like to make ^H (backspace) perform a backspace function > (e.g. move to previous character and delete it). The help function could > be mapped to some other key. (define-key global-map "\b" 'backward-delete-char-untabify) (define-key global-map "\eh" 'help-for-help) Makes backspace the same as delete, help is now M-h (previously bound to mark-paragraph, not something I use often). Dieter -- Welcome to the island. You are number six. dieter%nmt@relay.cs.net dieter@jupiter.nmt.edu