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Why does BACKSPACE generate C-h?
This answers the question posed in your question title:
In a nutshell: the ASCII control character Control-H has been called BACKSPACE.
C-q C-h inserts a Control-H character. Then C-u C-x = just ...
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Using TAB to flip between two windows
It could possibly be caused due to sometimes the key being understood as <tab> and other times as TAB.
Switch to fundamental-mode. Try,
C-h k C-i: This should get you TAB.
C-h k tabkey: This ...
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Confusion about key definition for SPC
kbd returns internal key definitions, not external key descriptions. It takes as its argument a string of the name that Emacs help uses to describe the key.
Witht the "old" functions for ...
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How to bind dired-up-directory to key
You need to provide the command that you want to bind to that key, as the second argument to global-set-key: (global-set-key (kbd "<f6>") #'dired-up-directory). Your sexp isn't even ...
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