Emacs and backspace - again

[Lowell Gilbert]

Rodger Castle <rodger at profocusdesigns.com> writes:

> I'm using emacs20 from the ports collection (as emacs from ports would not compile due to the Xau3d compile error) on 5.4-PRERELEASE.
> $TERM is xterm

There haven't been any reported failures in building
x11-toolkits/Xaw3d in at least several months.

I'd suggest you put your efforts into solving the problem
with that rather than workarounds for obsolete versions 
of emacs.