Re: Backspace direction reversion

KJ> I was just showing why it was more importasnt to get the KJ> backspace key binding right. You seemed to be equating the I think Kyle is right on-target here. Although I'm on record as rabidly pro "delete key deletes forward", I'm also just as rabid about the backspace key ALWAYS doing the right thing... perhaps even more so than the delete key. I can guarantee you that one of THE most frustrating things for a new user is not "you want me to use ctrl-d to delete forwards?" but "what idiot decided that backspace should bring up help". The delete key behavior is probably the _second_ most frustrating thing. :) No matter _what_ we do, we have _got_ to make sure we get the backspace key handling correct, for as many definitions of "correct" as is humanly possible. However, I feel that we can do BOTH. We _can_ fix both the backspace AND the delete issues. They are not mutually exclusive. KJ> The question that remains in my mind is, "Can we set KJ> delete-key-deletes-forward to t without hosing a large number KJ> of existing users?" I want to get to the point where we can KJ> set this variable to t, but I don't want to do it if we're not KJ> ready. As I've wrote the last time this topic was discussed I KJ> think this is a worthwhile concession to those coming to us by KJ> way of Windows, to help ease their transition to open source KJ> software. Yes, yes, yes yes yes. Did I mention that I agree 100% with this? -- Gary F. -- "In the end, the overall 'productivity' of the system the fact that it came into being at all, was the handiwork not of tools that sought to make programming seem easy, but the work of engineers who had no fear of 'hard.'" -- Ellen Ullman, "The Dumbing Down of Programming"