Rich Shepard wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
When I grepped my.bind for 'Del' and 'Delete' I found no binding for
that
key by itself. There is a C-Delete bound to word-delete-forward, and a
S-KP_Delete bound to cut, but no Delete by itself. As a matter of
fact, the
[Del] key is not bound to anything in cua.bind, emacs.bind, or
user.bind.
For what it's worth, in the latter file it's explicitly unbound from
char-delete-forward.
That is very likely the problem. The file user.bind normally holds the
changes the user has made in the shortcuts dialog, and it's read last,
so the key is being unbound when that file is loaded. Try deleting the
offending line, and all (hopefully) will be well. Or you can go into the
shortcuts dialog and search for char-delete-forward, and then restore it.
As for why it got unbound, that's a mystery. Maybe you did it by
accident somehow. But it probably doesn't actually have anything to do
with 1.6.2, in the end.
I find this stange. I tend to use the [Del] key and my mini-keyboard
doesn't have a numeric keypad in any case. From my user perspective,
this is
a bug.
How can I make the [Del] key delete the character immediately to the
right?
The binding is in site.bind, which sets "system-wide" bindings that are
independent of specific platforms.
rh
