"Peter Olcott" writes:
> I want to remap the forward-word, and backward-word
> functions on Emacs. I want to remap them to:
> forward-ward
> backward-word
>
> If possible, I need this to work corectly on any old/new
> Unix/Linux system that I may encounter.
>
> http://www.introrse.com/jasonc/docs/my-emacs.html
> I have already tried this above example and could not get
> anything to work the ".emacs" file in my login directory was
> simply ignored.

You most likely will not get this to work in a Linux-VC ('virtual
console'), because the editor does not recognize 'C-right' as an event
different from 'right'. And it is still the default setting for emacs
running together with X.

"Peter Olcott" writes:

> I want to remap the forward-word, and backward-word
> functions on Emacs. I want to remap them to:
> forward-ward
> backward-word
>
> If possible, I need this to work corectly on any old/new
> Unix/Linux system that I may encounter.
>
> http://www.introrse.com/jasonc/docs/my-emacs.html
> I have already tried this above example and could not get
> anything to work the ".emacs" file in my login directory was
> simply ignored.
>
> What exactly am I missing here, does this syntax vary
> drastically from system to system or is there some little
> configuration file that needs to tell emacs to read its own
> file?

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"Rainer Weikusat" wrote in message
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> "Peter Olcott" writes:
>> I want to remap the forward-word, and backward-word
>> functions on Emacs. I want to remap them to:
>> forward-ward
>> backward-word
>>
>> If possible, I need this to work corectly on any old/new
>> Unix/Linux system that I may encounter.
>>
>> http://www.introrse.com/jasonc/docs/my-emacs.html
>> I have already tried this above example and could not get
>> anything to work the ".emacs" file in my login directory
>> was
>> simply ignored.
>
> You most likely will not get this to work in a Linux-VC
> ('virtual
> console'), because the editor does not recognize 'C-right'
> as an event
> different from 'right'. And it is still the default
> setting for emacs
> running together with X.

So far I can't get it to work at all, the ".emacs" file is
completely ignored.

(define-key global-map [f3] 'delete-char)

When this is placed in a ".emacs" file it only beeps when
the f3 key is typed.