Wednesday, July 20, 2011

SSH Tectia Emacs backspace FIX! YAYYYY!

So I installed SSH tectia, and whenever I would try and access emacs on my webserver, I would need to use the delete key instead of the backspace key. SOOOOO ANNOYING!!!! So here's a quick fix:

Login to your server.
Type:
  1. "cd" - or just go to your home directory
  2. "emacs .emacs" - you should open a file with some information already inserted. You may not be able to see this file in the browser, but trust me, it's there
  3. Insert the following line: "(normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 1)" 
  4. C-x-s, C-x-c out of that, and DONE!
This was driving me nuts, so I hope it helps a bunch of you guys.