Re: [O] Delete in emacs on OS X

2011-03-10 Thread Samuel Wales
Unrelated: with external keyboard on a mac, my delete key sends in emacs 22 and C-n in emacs 23. The former is bindable. The latter is useless because C-n is needed.

Re: [O] Delete in emacs on OS X

2011-03-10 Thread John Hendy
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 wrote: > Doing F1-k on backspace ("delete" key) gives: > >  DEL (translated from ) runs the command >  delete

Re: [O] Delete in emacs on OS X

2011-03-10 Thread Juan Pechiar
Doing F1-k on backspace ("delete" key) gives: DEL (translated from ) runs the command delete-backward-char And with delete (Fn-"delete") it says: DEL (translated from ) runs the command delete-backward-char So both are mapped to DEL. You can fix this with (global-set-key [kp-delete]

Re: [O] Delete in emacs on OS X

2011-03-09 Thread Richard Lawrence
John Hendy writes: > 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? Try C-d. If that doesn't work, look at the help for delete-char (C-h f delete-char )

[O] Delete in emacs on OS X

2011-03-09 Thread John Hendy
Hi, I finally installed emacs/orgmode (using gnu emacs) on my OS X partition (have had it on the Arch linux side) and have a probably silly question. All has gone quite smoothly except for the fact that for the life of me I can't figure out what key combo provides "delete." Fn+delete behaves like