Marcus Thiessel <marcus_thiessel@hp.com>
- Unfortunately, XEmacs releases <21.0 don't work with Motif2.1. It
- will compile but you will get excessive X11 errors like
+ Unfortunately, XEmacs releases prior to 21.0 don't work with
+ Motif2.1. It will compile but you will get excessive X11 errors like
xemacs: X Error of failed request: BadGC (invalid GC parameter)
*** You type Control-H (Backspace) expecting to delete characters.
Emacs has traditionally used Control-H for help; unfortunately this
-interferes with its use as Backspace on TTY's. One way to solve this
-problem is to put this in your .emacs:
+interferes with its use as Backspace on TTY's. As of XEmacs 21,
+XEmacs looks at the "erase" setting of TTY structures and maps C-h to
+backspace when erase is set to C-h. This is sort of a special hack,
+but it makes it possible for you to use the standard:
- (when (eq tty-erase-char ?\C-h)
- (keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-?)
- (global-set-key "\M-?" 'help-command))
+ stty erase ^H
-This checks whether the TTY erase char is C-h, and if it is, makes
-Control-H (Backspace) work sensibly, and moves help to Meta-? (ESC ?).
+to get your backspace key to erase characters. The erase setting is
+recorded in the Lisp variable `tty-erase-char', which you can use to
+tune the settings in your .emacs.
-Note that you can probably also access help using F1.
+A major drawback of this is that when C-h becomes backspace, it no
+longer invokes help. In that case, you need to use f1 for help, or
+bind another key. An example of the latter is the following code,
+which moves help to Meta-? (ESC ?):
+
+ (global-set-key "\M-?" 'help-command)
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