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From: Juan Pechiar <juan@pechiar.com>
Subject: Re: Delete in emacs on OS X
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:11:12 -0200
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To: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
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Doing F1-k on backspace ("delete" key) gives:

  DEL (translated from <backspace>) runs the command
  delete-backward-char

And with delete (Fn-"delete") it says:

  DEL (translated from <kp-delete>) runs the command
  delete-backward-char

So both are mapped to DEL.

You can fix this with

  (global-set-key [kp-delete] 'delete-char)

Tested on

 GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.32)
 of 2010-06-21 on black.porkrind.org

Personally, I'm used to C-d, M-d, etc. for forward deleting.

Saludos,
.j.

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 08:33:49PM -0600, John Hendy wrote:
> I finally installed emacs/orgmode (using gnu emacs) on my OS X

> ... I can't figure out what key combo provides "delete." Fn+delete
> behaves like backspace. In my searching, I found reference to C-?,
> but that comes up as unrecognized.
>
> How do I delete?