[aclug-L] Re: Regarding the meeting for 11/20/00

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey, do you know how to make emacs work with the number keypad if you
have NumLock turned on. The keypad works fine with vi or other things,
but in emacs I just get beeps. BTW, I am running emacs in terminal
mode.


On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:14:42PM -0600, Tom Hull wrote:
> Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:06:42AM -0600, Tom Hull wrote:
> > > Add to your ~/.emacs file:
> > >
> > >   (global-set-key "\C-?" 'delete-char)
> > >
> > > You can test this without exiting and reloading by putting your cursor
> > > at the end of the line, then:
> > >
> > >   <ESC>-x eval-last-sexp <ENTER>
> > >
> > > Interactively, you can do:
> > >
> > >   <ESC>-x global-set-key <ENTER>
> > >
> > > Then on prompt press <DELETE>, then on prompt type:
> > >
> > >   delete-char
> > 
> > Hmmm.
> > 
> > I must have a stubborn version of Emacs.  I tried both examples and
> > <Delete> still acts like <Backspace> :(  I'm not worried, I'm sure
> > someday I'll figure it out.  I'm using GNU Emacs 20.7.2 on Debian 2.2,
> > if that makes any difference.
> 
> Sorry about that ... mine's stubborn too. I tested that DELETE worked,
> but didn't notice BACKSPACE until later. Try this (in ~/.emacs):
> 
>   (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char)
> 
> The interactive M-x global-set-key version won't work, because the X
> keymap is returning a DEL code, so emacs is trying to remap that.
> However, the X keymap also returns DEL for BACKSPACE (use ^Q to
> verify this), so both get remapped.
> 
> Note that the [delete] mapping will only work in X. When you run
> emacs in terminal mode (even in xterm), it will only read the
> processed keyboard codes and not the raw key shifts. To change
> this you'd have to go into your X keymap and twiddle with that
> to have the keys generate distinct codes, which emacs could
> then recognize and map differently.
> 
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