Re: The default value is the issue (was XEmacs 21 /vs./ my keyboard: I want my DEL back)

sb> Count me on the side believing the default delete direction sb> change as being a terrible thing. We already have a sb> well-defined delete forward key. It is C-d. It requires less sb> hand motion than the function key and has been in place sb> forever. Personally, I disagree... We have a long history of changing defaults to a setting that causes bugs to be flushed out and made visible. Setting d-k-d-f to 't will most definitely cause a large increase in visibility and help to flush out any remaining bugs in the tty handling code as well as any modes that may have gotten missed in the sweeps. sb> Maybe what we need are styles like CC mode uses. It wouldn't sb> be all that difficult to implement and if getting sensible sb> behavior required (setq xemacs-interface-style 'emacs) in sb> .emacs I could live with that. That would be extremely cool. Perhaps it could tie into some type of color-scheme setting as well... a style could include a color-scheme as well as an interface style. Make a bunch of different areas settable via styles and then lump all of those into one meta-style. Maybe I'm just rambling, though... -- Gary F. -- "There may not be a place for humans in the future... if we're successful." -- Rodney Brooks, Roboticist