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From: morgan@world.std.com (William M Stair)
Subject: Gnu emacs-19.28 and FreeBSD-2.0R
Message-ID: <MORGAN.95Jan11142736@world.std.com>
Sender: morgan@world.std.com (William M Stair)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 19:27:36 GMT
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I can't make the arrow keys work in Emacs using ansi mode.  Can anyone
tell me the "right" way to do this?  I can fix it partly by putting
global-set-key commands in my .emacs, but this would have to be
duplicated for every user, and it seems like a workaround anyway.

Also, I'd like to define the backspace key to "backward-delete-char",
can anyone tell me how to do this?  I tried doing it with a
(global-set-key ... command, but it seemd to ignore it.

Thanks for the help!

-Morgan