[Sussex] Emacs help

[Rupert Swarbrick]

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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