Re: XEmacs 21 /vs./ my keyboard: I want my DEL back

Karl> You're entitled to any opinion you wish to hold, and I'm Karl> entitled to mine, but let's just make it bloody damn clear Karl> that it is *you* who are farting around with default Karl> behavior that has existed in Emacs for something like 15 Karl> years, all in the name of pseudo-"progress" embodied by the Karl> Keymap Purity Hit Squad. It's _not_ "pseudo"-progress. I beta-test a Japanized Linux distribution with about 5 xterm variants and 4 different console maps, my students use Windose, some of my colleagues use Macs, the institute used to run Suns and now has a DEC OSF/1 system with the terminals being Solaris/386, and I'm sick and tired of never being really sure what some of the keys are going to do in the various and sundry terminal emulators and system consoles that I occasionally run XEmacs on. And I especially don't like having to trace uncorrect behavior through twisty trails to find out whether it's XEmacs, a patch to the terminal emulator, or a too-tricky terminfo entry. I agree that it's not unadulterated progress if it alters correct historical behavior, but just because some people are fortunate enough to have that doesn't mean all of us are all the time. A successful systematization of this mess is justifiably called "progress." By the way, why all the heat? 21.2 is an early beta, we have the CVS diffs, we can rebuild 20.4 (and it won't even cost $6 million). -- 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."