Before you say "so put that in your .emacs file, and off you go" -- I've been trying to do that, but can't make it work.
Details:
I'm running Fedora Core 3 and using ssh to get to the host.
if I do M-x global-set-key while in Emacs, when I hit Backspace, it displays it as C-d (First clue something isn't right). How do I change this binding, so that my Backspace is really mapped to a backspace, and not C-d?
If I give it the function 'delete-backward-char', then Backspace AND C-d do the same thing, which is a slight improvement, but not really what I want.
and putting
(global-set-key [backspace] 'delete-backward-char)
or
(global-set-key [DEL] 'delete-backward-char)
in the .emacs file doesn't work: Backspace still deletes forward.
Moreover, C-h on this system is currently the way to get backspace functionality, not "help" as it should be.
So how do I fix all this? I've been poring over the Gnu emacs website and I know it has something to do with the keymaps, but I haven't quite managed to figure it out. Thanks
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