Micce> Uh, I should have mentioned I run under X. Miles> So you can think of `DEL' as the emacs abstraction for whatever Miles> key happens to delete the previous character on your keyboard, Miles> be it labelled BS, <--, or
Micce> For tty emacs, I would understand, but with X, it must be Micce> possible to distinguish C-d and Delete, just as the <-- key Micce> does not bring up the help, and tab is different from ^I etc. Miles> Rubout. Because emacs maintains this abstraction, your emacs Miles> keybindings should work on any device. Micce> I.e. you can never make any use of more than basic tty Micce> capabilities? And it's annoying that key bindings in emacs and Micce> xemacs have different results. But of course you _can_ tell them apart. And you can remap them to your liking, with function-key-map, which see. This is usualy done in the term subdirectory of one of the site-lisp directories, because it is dependent on the terminal you're on. For example, in my site-lisp/term I have 3 files: x-win.el, rxvt.el, and linux.el. Here's a piece of each: ;;;x-win.el: ;; Map certain keypad keys into ASCII characters ;; that people usually expect. (define-key function-key-map [backspace] [127]) (define-key function-key-map [delete] [deletechar]) (define-key function-key-map [tab] [?\t]) (define-key function-key-map [linefeed] [?\n]) (define-key function-key-map [clear] [?\C-l]) (define-key function-key-map [return] [?\C-m]) (define-key function-key-map [escape] [?\e]) (define-key function-key-map [M-backspace] [?\M-\d]) (define-key function-key-map [M-delete] [?\M-\d]) (define-key function-key-map [M-tab] [?\M-\t]) (define-key function-key-map [M-linefeed] [?\M-\n]) (define-key function-key-map [M-clear] [?\M-\C-l]) (define-key function-key-map [M-return] [?\M-\C-m]) (define-key function-key-map [M-escape] [?\M-\e]) (define-key function-key-map [iso-lefttab] [backtab]) ;; These tell read-char how to convert ;; these special chars to ASCII. (put 'backspace 'ascii-character 127) (put 'delete 'ascii-character 127) ;;;rxvt.el: (define-key function-key-map "\e[A" [up]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[B" [down]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[C" [right]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[D" [left]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[2~" [insert]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[4~" [select]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[5~" [prior]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[6~" [next]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[11~" [f1]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[12~" [f2]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[13~" [f3]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[14~" [f4]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[15~" [f5]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[17~" [f6]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[18~" [f7]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[19~" [f8]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[20~" [f9]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[21~" [f10]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[23~" [f11]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[24~" [f12]) (define-key function-key-map "\e[29~" [print]) ;;;linux.el: (define-key function-key-map "\M-[1~" [home]) (define-key function-key-map "\M-[2~" [insert]) (define-key function-key-map "\M-[3~" [deletechar]) (define-key function-key-map "\M-[4~" [end]) (define-key function-key-map "\M-[5~" [prior]) (define-key function-key-map "\M-[6~" [next]) HTH, Ian -- "This is the patent age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions." George Gordon, lord Byron
