Backspace and C-h in emacs -nw

Backspace and C-h in emacs -nw

[Peter Ring]

I'm a bit stuck with a minor inconvenience in emacs.

Starting emacs in a win32-mode rxvt terminal (or at a cmd prompt) like this

  emacs -nw

or, bypassing my .emacs,

  emacs -q -nw

I get a nice color- and face-aware emacs. But C-h and Backspace are weird.
Executing 'describe-key' and entering C-h and Backspace produces the
following:

C-h:
  DEL runs the command backward-delete-char-untabify

Backspace:
  C-d runs the command delete-char

I'd expected that C-h was a prefix, and that Backspace was received as DEL.
I've found no convenient way to enter C-h.

Am I the only one with this experience?

kind regards
Peter Ring

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Re: Backspace and C-h in emacs -nw

[Joe Buehler]

Peter Ring wrote:

Re: Backspace and C-h in emacs -nw

[Dirk.Sondermann]

In order to prevent ^H from being mistaken for DEL, try to include a

  stty erase ^-

in your ~/.profile.

Dirk


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RE: Backspace and C-h in emacs -nw

[Peter Ring]

A tip from Joe Buehler helped me out. There's a section in emacs news, also
/usr/doc/emacs-21.2/NEWS, about a new user-option,
'normal-erase-is-backspace'. 

Customizing 'normal-erase-is-backspace' to nil achieves the desired effect
in win32-mode rxvt (and does not affect X-Windowed emacs or emacs in X rxvt,
as far as I can tell).

kind regards
Peter Ring

-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk.Sondermann [ mailto:Dirk.Sondermann@dynaware.de ]
Sent: 27. august 2002 10:19
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Backspace and C-h in emacs -nw


In order to prevent ^H from being mistaken for DEL, try to include a

   stty erase ^-

in your ~/.profile.

Dirk


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