[Sussex] Emacs help

[Rupert Swarbrick]

Geoffrey J. Teale wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> ---------- %< ---------------
>
> 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
>
> :-)
>
>
Thank you very much. I have now R'd the Fing M.

Most irritatingly, I remember now reading this when I'd just started
with emacs a couple of years ago.

How embarrasing!

Rupert
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