On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:23:24PM +0200, Mikael Hedin wrote:
> > `DEL' is the ASCII DEL character, which since time immemorial has meant
> > delete-backward-char in emacs. `Delete' is a labelled key on (some)
> > keyboards, which usually means delete-char.
>
> Uh, I should have mentioned I run
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>
Miles Bader writes:
> The reason you are confused is because you (apparently) think that `DEL' and
> `Delete' are the same thing; they are not. `DEL' is the ASCII DEL character,
> which since time immemorial has meant delete-backward-char in emacs.
> `Delete' is a labelled key on (some) keybo
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 06:49:22PM +0200, Mikael Hedin wrote:
> When I run xemacs, and type C-h k Delete, it talks about the DEL key.
> On C-h k Backspace, it talks about the BS key.
>
> When I run emacs and type C-h k Delete, it talks about C-d, and C-h k
> Backspace talks about DEL.
>
> They bo
Hi!
When I run xemacs, and type C-h k Delete, it talks about the DEL key.
On C-h k Backspace, it talks about the BS key.
When I run emacs and type C-h k Delete, it talks about C-d, and C-h k
Backspace talks about DEL.
They both do the right thing when deleting chars in a text.
But why is emacs
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