sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:
(global-set-key 'backspace 'delete-backward-char)
doesn't cut the mustard. Despite "stty erase ^?".
That is exactly the problem. It should be "stty erase ^h"
However,
(global-set-key "\C-h" 'delete-backward-char)
works. Does 'backspace correspond to the event generated by the erase
character?
Bingo!
Jan