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Re: [h-e-w] How can I bind to C-?


From: David Vanderschel
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] How can I bind to C-?
Date: 23 Jul 2002 22:19:26 -0500

On Tuesday, July 23, "Peter Milliken" <address@hidden> wrote:
>Try the key-binding guide by Jari Aalto 

Specifically:

    http://tiny-tools.sourceforge.net/emacs-keys.html

where it says:

    6.1 Emacs info, Character Type 
    File: elisp, Node: Character Type 

    For historical reasons, Emacs treats the DEL character
    as the control equivalent of ?:

          ?\^? => 127     ?\C-? => 127

    As a result, it is currently not possible to represent
    the character Control-?, which is a meaningful input
    character under X. It is not easy to change this as
    various Lisp files refer to DEL in this way.

So it is truly a special case which I had not
encountered before.  Mystery solved.  But the numeric
binding works nevertheless, so I am happy.

I erred when I thought that the redo package had bound
redo to DEL.  Apparently one of my attempts to bind
redo to C-? actually succeeded in the sense that emacs
interpreted my key description as DEL.  Another
mystery solved.

David V.




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