Is there a keyboard shortcut for deleting one character ahead of the cursor, instead of one character behind it?

Is there a keyboard shortcut for deleting one character ahead of the cursor, instead of one character behind it (backspace)? Back in the days when I was using xemacs for my Matlab editor, I could do this with Ctrl+D. If it exists in Matalb, what is it's "action name" within the keyboard shortcuts preference editor, so that I might customize it?

[Stephen23]

What OS?

[Matt J]

Windows.

[Image Analyst]

Do you not have the extended keyboard with the navigation pad and the numeric keypad? Does your keyboard not have a delete key?

[Matt J]

I do have a delete key, but I might prefer a different shortcut.

Answer 1

[Jan]

Usually this is done by the delete key.

[Matt J]

@Jan, Thanks a lot.

what is it's "action name" within the keyboard shortcuts preference editor, so that I might customize it?

And, in answer to this part, there is a "Delete" action in the preference settings that can be reassigned.

[Jan]

See Matt J's comment: The action name is "delete" --- as expected ;-)

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

For some reason, Apple keyboards don't have a delete key. Or actually what they called delete was actually a backspace key. I always hated that about them. So what I did was to get a Logitech keyboard (for my wife's Mac) that had both a backspace key (delete to the left of the cursor) and delete key (delete to the right of the cursor). Problem solved.

[Jan]

My Apple keyboard does have a delete key. It is a German keyboard and the key is marked as "Entf".

The compact keyboard without a number block use Fn-Delete (which is the "Backspace"-key...) or control-D.

[Matt J]

If you have a keyboard lacking a Delete key then, for Matlab purposes at least, you can reassign the Delete action to a different keyboard shortcut: