Emacs
Duane Attaway
dattaway at attaway.net
Tue Nov 5 23:12:46 CST 2002
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!
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