[vox-tech] emacs delete key-binding

[Jonathan Stickel]

The default setup of emacs for Red Hat causes the "backspace" key to 
delete backward 1 character, the "delete" key to delete forward 1 
character, and "C-w" to kill a high-lighted region.

I would like to have the "delete" key assigned to kill a highlighted 
region in addition to deleting 1 character forward.  This is common 
behavior of most gui text editors and word processors.  I tried the 
following in my .emacs file:

(global-set-key [delete] 'kill-region)

This does assign "delete" to kill-region, but no longer works to delete 
forward 1 character.  If I the add the following to .emacs:

(global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char)

whichever assignment comes last (delete-char or kill-region) takes 
precedence.  If I have the following:

(global-set-key [delete] 'kill-region 'delete-char)

I get errors on emacs startup (see below), but both delete-char and 
kill-region are in fact assigned to "delete"!  Is there a correct way to 
do this?  I am new to elisp (obviously).

Thanks,
Jonathan



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