[Sussex] Emacs help

Rupert Swarbrick rupert.swarbrick at lineone.net
Wed May 11 21:35:18 UTC 2005


Been coding on my laptop using emacs and come up with an irritating
problem, namely that both the backspace and delete keys delete the
character before the cursor.

Ctrl-<bkspc/del> works, but does the opposite to expected - so ctrl-del
deletes the word before the cursor, not the one afterwards.

Backspace/Delete work fine in e.g. OpenOffice.org, so I assume that it's
an emacs config issue.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated as I always remember ctrl-d after
moving the cursor to the other side of the word and deleting it that way!

Rupert
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