Map C-Backspace to backward-kill-word
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attitude12136 · 2022-10-07 22:01

Hello,

I am an emacs beginner and I am running into this annoying issue where
pressing Control-Basckscpace brings up the help menu, which is the
same as pressing Control-h. I want to remap C-Backspace to the
function backward-kill word but keep C-h for help.

Currently, I have M-Backspace mapped to backward-kill-word be default,
but I do not want to get used to that one because I use C-Backspace
outside of Emacs. What is the best solution here? I have looked online
and did not find solutions that work exactly like I want. Some
remapped C-h which is not what I want to do.

I am using wsl 2 ubuntu if that matters at all.

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adx · 2022-10-07 22:49

Are you using emacs in a terminal?

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attitude12136 · 2022-10-08 01:02

Yes

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thetemp_ · 2022-10-08 01:27

If you don't have a special reason to use the terminal, use the GUI
instead.

But to solve this problem, [it sounds like you need to put `(normal-
erase-is-backspace-mode 1)` in your init
file](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/DEL-
Does-Not-Delete.html).