Thanks, the .emacs worked. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duane Attaway [mailto:dattaway@attaway.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:13 PM
> To: Jeremy Fowler
> Cc: Kclug@Kclug. Org
> Subject: Re: Emacs
> 
> 
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
> 
> > Anybody know how to change the delete key behavior in emacs? I find it
> > very annoying that my delete key is acting like a backspace key.
> > (Deleting from the left instead of the right)
> 
> This is usually solved as a termcap issue.  Many kinds of xterms go
> further by offering a menu item for swapping those keys.
> 
> But I heard this works in your .emacs file
> 
>    (global-set-key [backspace] 'delete-backward-char)  
>    (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char)     
> 
> And if you want to create an .inputrc to do these in bash:
> 
> <.inputrc>
> 
> "e[C": 	forward-char
> "eOC":		forward-char
> "e[D": 	backward-char
> "eOD":		backward-char
> "e[3~":	delete-char
> "e[1~":	beginning-of-line
> "e[4~":	end-of-line
> 
> To see what the keys send, type "cat -t", and press the keys you want to
> know about. After you press ENTER, the codes will be shown... more in the
> man bash page under "Readline Command Names"...
> 
> 
> choices, choices!
>