Juan/Richard: thanks for the suggestions. I'll try these when I'm home on the Mac. Perhaps I should have just been using C-d all along!
John On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Juan Pechiar <j...@pechiar.com> wrote: > Doing F1-k on backspace ("delete" key) gives: > > DEL (translated from <backspace>) runs the command > delete-backward-char > > And with delete (Fn-"delete") it says: > > DEL (translated from <kp-delete>) runs the command > delete-backward-char > > So both are mapped to DEL. > > You can fix this with > > (global-set-key [kp-delete] 'delete-char) > > Tested on > > GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.32) > of 2010-06-21 on black.porkrind.org > > Personally, I'm used to C-d, M-d, etc. for forward deleting. > > Saludos, > .j. > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 08:33:49PM -0600, John Hendy wrote: >> I finally installed emacs/orgmode (using gnu emacs) on my OS X > >> ... I can't figure out what key combo provides "delete." Fn+delete >> behaves like backspace. In my searching, I found reference to C-?, >> but that comes up as unrecognized. >> >> How do I delete? >