Mercurial > emacs
changeset 36720:d587de1b655a
(Deletion): Fix last change.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:55:15 +0000 |
| parents | ff26f01b3c8d |
| children | 65461941776d |
| files | man/killing.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/killing.texi Sun Mar 11 17:52:35 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/killing.texi Sun Mar 11 17:55:15 2001 +0000 @@ -117,13 +117,14 @@ have just @key{DEL}. (The former variety usually labels the @key{DEL} key as @key{BS} or @key{<-} and refers to it as a ``backspace key''.) When Emacs starts, it tries to detect keyboards with both @key{BS} and -@key{Delete} keys, and if so, binds them to the commands users expect: -@key{Delete} deletes forward, like @kbd{C-d} does, and @key{BS} deletes -backwards. However, some systems don't report the keyboard -configuration. If your keyboard has these two keys, and if they are -both reported to Emacs, but Emacs is unable to establish that, you can -use the @code{delete-key-deletes-forward-mode} command to force Emacs to -treat @key{BS} and @key{Delete} differently. Either type @kbd{C-u 1 M-x +@key{Delete} keys, and if it finds your keyboard to have both keys, it +binds them to the commands users expect: @key{Delete} deletes forward, +like @kbd{C-d} does, and @key{BS} deletes backwards. However, some +systems don't report the keyboard configuration. If your keyboard has +these two keys, and if they are both reported to Emacs, but Emacs is +unable to establish that, you can use the +@code{delete-key-deletes-forward-mode} command to force Emacs to treat +@key{BS} and @key{Delete} differently. Either type @kbd{C-u 1 M-x delete-key-deletes-forward-mode @key{RET}} or put the following line into your @file{.emacs} init file (@pxref{Init File}):