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items: Redefining ctrl-D (and others)

Redefining ctrl-D (and others)
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description: Hi all, I'm close to my wit's end here. Being a died-in-the-wool emacs user, I naturally hit ctrl-D to delete a character. Unfortunately, IDL uses this to exit, and since old (and still used) habits die hard, I find myself continually killing my IDL sessions without intending to. Is there any way to change the binding of ctrl-D to something useful (like delete-char)? For that matter, is there some way of changing all the control sequences to be more emacs-like? I've RTFM, but haven't had much luck doing what I'm after. For what it's worth, I run IDL 4.0.1, both on a Sun (Solaris 2.5.1) and Linux (1.2.8). Thanks. Mike -- Mike Ressler, PhD ressler@cougar.jpl.nasa.gov Astronomer, Infrared Camera Engineer, System Administrator Slayer of trees, observatory vehicles, and /tmp disks "A kludge of the highest order ..."
creator: Mike Ressler
date: 1996-11-01T08:00:00-00:00