Re: Backspace direction reversion

MS> So, you would rather be associated with Windows and Notepad? MS> :-) Martin> Yes. Yikes! ms> This disagreement is exactly the reason why we shouldn't get ms> religious about the issue. Um, you know, like, sorta,.... Anyway, I agree with Michael. I just want this debate over with.... Ahem. If Customize (as much as I hate Customize) were keymap capable and we had customize themes.... Isn't that where all these keystrokes should be going? <TONGUE-IN-CHEEK> Really, the solution is to leave ALL the defaults in their legacy position, and for every key (moderate position: that excites this kind of debate), we initially bind it to the function `users-dont-do-any-work-anyway-so-lets-ask-him-what-this-key-should-do'. This would be done _after_ reading .emacs, so all us legacy keystrokers could setq `i-have-work-to-do-so-dont-you-dare-touch-my-f**king-keymap' to t once and never have to deal with it again. </TONGUE-IN-CHEEK> Realistically, with customize themes, we could put a `keymap' topic in the Help menu (`keyboard' if you think PC users wouldn't catch on). This could have a set of themes (Windose Notepad, Word, Happy Hacking---disables all unnecessary keys, old-duffer-emacs, the-one-true-keymap---alias for old-duffer-emacs and my personal favorite, etc). Then there could be an optional `keymap test' which drops the user into a test buffer and exercises as many of the controversial or difficult keys as we can think of. If we were serious about interface improvement. (I'm not, not enough to implement the above :-( gomenne.) -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are those two straight lines for? "Free software rules."