Re: simple editor required

[Paul Edwards]

"Sam Halliday" <devnull@example.com> wrote in message 
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> Paul Edwards wrote:
> > For technical curiosity though, why was everyone convinced
> > the global-set-key would work?  And indeed it did work on
> > Xemacs.  I would have thought this situation would have
> > come up all the time for the presumably large number of
> > people who want that behaviour of DEL doing a delete-char.
>
> did anyone suggest
>
>   (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 0)

No.

> in ~/.emacs

Error in init file: Symbol's function definition is void:
normal-erase-is-backspace-mode

Client is using 20.7.1, maybe it is a new feature.

BFN.  Paul.