I'm not sure how to respond to this thread. I use emacs at least 16 hours a day. I've been using it for many many years. I wrote speakup using emacs. Although we used to have problems with cursor tracking in emacs I have never had a problem with the backspace function in emacs. I have seen problems with backspace in a few editors which have already been mentioned but never emacs. The only thing I can think of is that some folks are not using the standard Linux character del or ascii 127. Other than that I have no clew what is meant I can backspace across this entire message and it works just fine meaning is says each character as it is backed over. So go figure. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
