Re: ILC2005: McCarthy denounces Common Lisp, "Lisp", XML, and Rahul

[Ivan Boldyrev]

On 9162 day of my life Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
>>> [ Now, if anybody could explain me why it doesn't work automatically
>>>   when I put this in my ~/.emacs:
>>>
>>>     (case window-system
>>>       ((nil)
>>>        (message "houra")
>>>        (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode)) ; never works :-(
>>
>> Does at least (message "houra") work?
>> Try also to use (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 1)
>
> Yes, houra is logged.  And with:
>   (setq inhibit-default-init t) ; and
>   (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 1) ; it still leaves
> C-h bound to delete-backward-char, and
> DEL translated to C-d bound to delete-char

What about

(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook
  (lambda ()
     (case window-system
       ...)))

-- 
Ivan Boldyrev

                  Sorry my terrible English, my native language is Lisp!