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From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Delete in emacs on OS X
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:18:42 -0600
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To: Juan Pechiar <juan@pechiar.com>
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Juan/Richard: thanks for the suggestions. I'll try these when I'm home
on the Mac. Perhaps I should have just been using C-d all along!

John

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Juan Pechiar <juan@pechiar.com> wrote:
> Doing F1-k on backspace ("delete" key) gives:
>
> =C2=A0DEL (translated from <backspace>) runs the command
> =C2=A0delete-backward-char
>
> And with delete (Fn-"delete") it says:
>
> =C2=A0DEL (translated from <kp-delete>) runs the command
> =C2=A0delete-backward-char
>
> So both are mapped to DEL.
>
> You can fix this with
>
> =C2=A0(global-set-key [kp-delete] 'delete-char)
>
> Tested on
>
> =C2=A0GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.32)
> =C2=A0of 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?
>