From: Casey West Date: 17:09 on 14 Aug 2003 Subject: Emacs cperl-mode Dude, seriously, when I tell you I want backspace to delete characters preceding the cursor I bloody well mean it! Why then, *WHY*, do you insist on doing nothing useful when I hit backspace when not running under X? You can get it right under X, and oh so horribly wrong otherwise. I don't want the help when I hit backspace I want the frelling character to disappear. I've easily tried every configuration option known to man, woman, and beast. There is no answer. All further proposed answers will be wrong; especially the ones that insist I should stop using the broken emacs mode, or emacs all together. There is no solution, we are at an impasse. Go screw, cperl-mode.
From: David Wheeler Date: 17:57 on 14 Aug 2003 Subject: Re: Emacs cperl-mode On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 09:09 AM, Casey West wrote: > Dude, seriously, when I tell you I want backspace to delete characters > preceding the cursor I bloody well mean it! Why then, *WHY*, do you > insist on doing nothing useful when I hit backspace when not running > under X? You can get it right under X, and oh so horribly wrong > otherwise. I don't want the help when I hit backspace I want the > frelling character to disappear. > > I've easily tried every configuration option known to man, woman, and > beast. There is no answer. All further proposed answers will be wrong; > especially the ones that insist I should stop using the broken emacs > mode, or emacs all together. There is no solution, we are at an > impasse. > Go screw, cperl-mode. Well, here's another wrong solution, then, although it works for me some of the time: ;; This setting is mainly for using emacs in the shell. ;; It makes the backspace key work correctly. (keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-?) Regards, David
From: Casey West Date: 18:20 on 14 Aug 2003 Subject: Re: Emacs cperl-mode It was Thursday, August 14, 2003 when David Wheeler took the soap box, saying: : On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 09:09 AM, Casey West wrote: : : >Dude, seriously, when I tell you I want backspace to delete characters : >preceding the cursor I bloody well mean it! Why then, *WHY*, do you : >insist on doing nothing useful when I hit backspace when not running : >under X? You can get it right under X, and oh so horribly wrong : >otherwise. I don't want the help when I hit backspace I want the : >frelling character to disappear. : > : >I've easily tried every configuration option known to man, woman, and : >beast. There is no answer. All further proposed answers will be wrong; : >especially the ones that insist I should stop using the broken emacs : >mode, or emacs all together. There is no solution, we are at an : >impasse. : >Go screw, cperl-mode. : : Well, here's another wrong solution, then, although it works for me : some of the time: : : ;; This setting is mainly for using emacs in the shell. : ;; It makes the backspace key work correctly. : (keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-?) It totaly didn't not work! Thanks! Casey West
From: David Wheeler Date: 18:18 on 14 Aug 2003 Subject: Re: Emacs cperl-mode On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 10:20 AM, Casey West wrote: > ;; This setting is mainly for using emacs in the shell. > : ;; It makes the backspace key work correctly. > : (keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-?) > > It totaly didn't not work! Thanks! Sweet! David
From: Gavin Estey Date: 23:47 on 14 Aug 2003 Subject: Re: Emacs cperl-mode On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Casey West wrote: > Dude, seriously, when I tell you I want backspace to delete characters > preceding the cursor I bloody well mean it! Why then, *WHY*, do you > insist on doing nothing useful when I hit backspace when not running > under X? You can get it right under X, and oh so horribly wrong > otherwise. I don't want the help when I hit backspace I want the > frelling character to disappear. > I have a similar and equally frustration issue with vi on my ibook. Run vi and I can use delete to delete things, but after a while delete stops doing anything. Using esc-d-left isn't a great option. Why is there no proper backspace key anyway. And why does fn-delete not do something sensible? Is there a way to convince OSX to remap my keys in a sensible way. Fucking software. Not good for anything. Gavin.
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