Re: Deleting broken in Python, or why delete-key-deletes-forward sucks

BAW> --- 1519,1529 ---- BAW> \\[universal-argument] (programmatically, argument ARG) specifies the BAW> number of characters to delete (default is 1)." BAW> (interactive "*p") BAW> ! (if (or (and (fboundp 'delete-forward-p) ;XEmacs 21 BAW> ! (delete-forward-p)) BAW> ! (and (boundp 'delete-key-deletes-forward) ;XEmacs 20 BAW> ! delete-key-deletes-forward)) BAW> (funcall py-delete-function arg) BAW> (py-electric-backspace arg))) IIRC, I was the author of that delete-forward-p defsubst. But I won't bless it as the officially sanctioned way to do this. It was originally written only for use in the file in which it is found. I simply haven't done the requisite Deep Thought to figure out what the Right Way is. Perhaps Gary would like to bless something? Martin