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Re: Upgraded to 21.1 and backspace no longer works


From: J. E. Lewis
Subject: Re: Upgraded to 21.1 and backspace no longer works
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:16:25 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:40:31PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Backspace no longer works the same after upgrading from version 20 to
> > version 21.  It works as a delete-char as opposed to
> > delete-backward-char.
> 
> Try this:
> 
>     M-x normal-erase-is-backspace-mode RET
> 
> Did that help?

Yes that fixed it. But I wonder what changed, to stop it from working
in 21 when it worked the way I expected it to in 20.

In my .emacs do I need to say something like:
(setq normal-erase-is-backspace-mode t)

-- 
Jim Lewis
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