I have been puzzling for some time why backspace and delete worked fine everywhere except when using emacs under X. In this instance, both keys deleted backwards (ie did what the backspace key should).
The weird thing that I could not initally figure out is that whenever emacs runs in character mode (for instance running it across an ssh link to another machine) everything worked perfectly. However reading the debian policy on this subject I did "begin" to understand given different approaches to mapping these keys. However, despite looking, I couldn't find where in the startup sequence the debian package set the key mappings. In the end I put the following line in my $HOME/.emacs file (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char) And all works perfectly However I would have thought that this is something the debian package should do automatically in its startup scripts that are in /usr/lib/emacs/... Am I missing something here? PS - Xemacs ( a different package altogther - I know) works fine. -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandler.u-net.com or http://www.chandler.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk