C-h is correctly interpreted has 'help' in Carbon Emacs.app and using /usr/bin/emacs in Terminal.app. I'm sure I'm missing something simple here. Emacs describe-bindings shows c-h is rightly mapped to help. So it seems like xterm or X11 sees a c-h keypress and then sends a backspace to emacs. Can this behavior be changed?
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Check the Advanced tab of the Settings in use in the Preferences for Terminal.app.
Terminal -> Preferences-> Settings -> [settings name] -> Advanced
and ensure that Delete sends Ctrl-H setting is unchecked.
EDIT: Sorry, I misread your question. This answer might be helpful for someone who is having trouble using /usr/bin/emacs under Terminal.app, a problem you don't have.
Ned Deily
2009-11-28 07:54:43
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This may help, or befuddle, depending on your point of view. Scroll down to about 5.4 and start there...
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-5.html
...and welcome to the life long hobby of fiddling with your .emacs :)
mtvee
2009-11-28 07:59:28
Doesn't seem to matter what goes into .emacs. Both the delete key and c-h chord produce the same key value ^?. This is the test: In emacs try this c-q c-h and c-q DEL. Emacs in an xterm on a mac produces ^? both times. Emacs in Terminal.app produces ^H and ^? respectively. What I can't figure out is why emacs in an xterm treats c-h as ^? by default.
stac
2009-11-28 15:35:15
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Found the solution here: http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard/keyboard.html#Xterm
Apply palm, with force, to forehead.
Many thanks to those that responded.
stac
2009-11-28 19:32:33