Emacs, OS X and forward-delete.

Tyler — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:09:19 +0000

I recently moved from Vim to Emacs.

Right away I realized that forward-delete wasn’t working (deleting a character on the right of the cursor, rather than back-spacing).

I know little about Emacs, but figured out, with a tip from Ross, how to map the chord of “Function-Backspace” to forward-delete.

Add this to your .emacs file:
(global-set-key [kp-delete] 'delete-char)

Simple but a requirement for coding.

Scala Development

Tyler — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:15:07 +0000

Nothing better on OS X than:
Emacs +
Ensime +
VimMode
for me right now.