From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7144 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rodolfo Medina Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: `del' key not working out of x environment Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:41:11 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <878xptu614.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87aca9dhbh.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145976049 17956 80.91.229.2 (25 Apr 2006 14:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 25 16:40:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYOiG-0004iK-EU for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:40:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYOiF-0005lq-W1 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:40:24 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.110005 (No Gnus v0.5) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hb6qkkatNismjA1C+ka2rTBhGfQ= Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.201.17.178 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=6DMmK7JG[@UOH21j@:G^6UYSB=nbEKnk[BkJCK@5_U3[:AocXk=\=_TT7bXfBO; G:UKAib\KDO`hRU]ggPf3[E0W<_@ List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7144 Archived-At: Rodolfo Medina writes: >> If I start Emacs and Gnus out of graphical environment, >> when trying to delete a message with `B del', Gnus complains that >> `B is undefined'; and if I want to get back one page >> within a message, with `del', Gnus complains that the buffer is read only. >> Instead, within graphical environment all works fine. >> How come, and how to fix that? gdt@work.lexort.com writes: > There is a longstanding issue about the labeling and coding of keys on > keyboards. Originally (in the non-IBM world), the key in the upper > right was marked DEL or Delete, and sent the ASCII DEL symbol (0177). > This was used as the byte that caused a previous input symbol to be removed. > > [snip] > > The following comments and Xresources fragments, intended for those > with PC keyboards, explain how to fix xterm so that the Backspace key > generates DEL and to avoid making xterm set BS as the erase character. > > You seem to be having a different problem, which is that whatever > system you are using to type on is not generating an ASCII DEL (0177) > when you push the backspace key. Or perhaps you are pushing the > 'Delete' key. Thanks indeed for your ponderous posting, which is though a bit hard for me to fully understand. But it gave me the idea of using the backspace key in place of the key, and it works fine: to delete a message, I do `B ' (or also `B Ctrl-'); to go back one page within a message, . Thanks indeed, Rodolfo