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Reputation: 556

C-DEL to delete word backwards in emacs on console

I'm using emacs in the Linux console.

I would like to be able to use C-DEL(that is CtrlBackspace) to backwards-kill-word to have an interface that is consistent with the emacs gui - as well as most other interfaces on various platform.

C-DEL doesn't work to backwards-kill-word because the sequence for complicated reasons is interpreted as C-h as explained in this section of the emacs wiki.

How can I get C-DEL to delete a word back and maintain the default behaviour (help menu) for C-h?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 471

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 556

Seemingly, this can't be fixed by way of configuring emacs but using showkey, loadkeys and dumpkeys to load a custom keymap where Alt+Backspace is bound to Meta_Delete (just like Ctrl+Backspace is by default) did the trick.

Upvotes: 1

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