Re: Emacs keyboard command

[B. T. Raven]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote in message
news:mailman.5195.1155670786.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> > From: "B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@alcisp.com>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:10:45 -0500
> >
> > > Try M-BS.  A word, in Find File context is usually a dir, but now
always.
> > >
> > > M-BS runs `backward-kill-word'
> >
> > On some systems (e.g. w32) this key combo runs undo (as opposed to
> > advertised-undo) and C-<backspace> runs backward-kill-word.
>
> Not on my w32 system: I get backward-kill-word when I type
> M-backspace.
>
> What Emacs version do you have that behaves otherwise?
>
>
GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-windows98.2222) of 2004-03-10 on NYAUMO

C-h k M-<backspace> reports
"M-DEL runs the command undo
   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple'.
(undo &optional ARG)"

this is synonymous with C-_
and
M-<delete> is the same as M-d

(All on standard 108 key keyboard)


Maybe it has something to do with 'delete-is-backspace' (I misremember the
real name of this setting) or something in my .emacs but I am sure I have
never messed with this key combo. Neither do I use msw keyboard emulation,
only transient-mark-mode t.
The only suspicious thing I can find in my .emacs that is even vaguely
related is:

(global-set-key [(super k)] (lambda () (interactive) (kill-line 0 )))

C-h b reports s-k ?? but this is probably because the backward kill line
is wrapped in a lambda.

Ed