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- x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from help-lucid-emacs to alt.lucid-emacs.help; Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:24:24 EST
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:23:07 PST
- Message-ID: <9211172323.AA01717@thalidomide.lucid>
- X-Windows: Let it get in YOUR way.
- From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
- Sender: jwz%thalidomide@lucid.com
- Subject: Re: scrollbars, delete, backspace
- References: <1992Nov17.222650.22439@ntmtv>
- Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
- Path: sparky!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!help-lucid-emacs
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- In message <1992Nov17.222650.22439@ntmtv> Chuck Irvine wrote:
- >
- > 1) Simple question - is it possible to install mouseable scrollbars?
-
- No. See the NEWS file.
-
- > 2) Being a creature of habit, I cannot keep myself from hitting the
- > backspace key when I want a backspace. I've tried inserting
- > "(global-set-key 'BS 'delete-backward-char)" in my .emacs file but it
- > doesn't seem to have any effect.
-
- That's because `BS' is not the name of a keysym. The way to do what you're
- trying to do is
-
- (global-set-key 'backspace 'delete-backward-char)
- or
- (global-set-key "\b" 'delete-backward-char)
-
- but then you'd also have to do
-
- (define-key isearch-mode-map "\b" 'isearch-delete-char)
-
- and possibly similar things in other maps. So what you should really do
- is
- xmodmap -e 'keysym Backspace = Delete'
-
- These sorts of global changes are easier to make at the X level than at
- the emacs level.
-
- -- Jamie
-