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I want to access the help for a command by using ctrl+h in emacs, but it keeps deleting the previous character. I googled it, and apparently ctrl+h is backspace in a terminal. How do I remove this key mapping? I use regular backspace, and I want to access the emacs help using ctrl+h. I'm using cygwin and GNU Emacs 23.3.1

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Cygwin's default backspace keycode was changed from ^H to ^? a couple of years ago to stop this from happening. Are you using an old Cygwin version or the no-longer-maintained rxvt, which still does use ^H by default?

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