[Sussex] Emacs help

[Geoffrey J. Teale]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 22:35 +0100, Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
> 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.

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Ah... well, this is a classic issue, and while it pains me to say it,
RTFM, in particular:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html#DEL%20Does%20Not%
20Delete

:-)


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Geoffrey J. Teale <tealeg at member.fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation