On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:

> Somebody must have encountered this before:
> 
> To get correct behaviour of the DELETE key on my Mac keyboard, I have to
> set the 'erase' key to ^H.
> However, emacs uses ^H for 'help'
> How does one fix this?

I hate emacs. :-)

Having said that, I always put this in my .emacs file:

(global-set-key "\C-h" 'backward-delete-char-untabify)
(global-set-key "\M-h" 'help-command)

That makes the backspace key do the expected thing, and makes meta-h the
help key.

--scott