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

From: Glynn Clements <glynn(a)sensei.co.uk&gt; Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 15:23:16 +0000 (GMT) `Old timers' tend to have a quasi-religious belief that \010 is Backspace and \177 is Delete. Newcomers generally just want stuff to work right. Yeah, old timers hate it when things work right :-) Seriously though, I have it working right. A new cleaner implementation of all of this sounds like a great idea . . . unless you're talking about changing the default behavior, i. e. breaking stuff for folks that already have things working right. For me personally, I don't need anything other than Control-D to delete forward and even with all the fuckage that RMS introduced with making C-h the help character, the problem was never one of having the key on the top right accidentally deleting *forwards*. Not in emacs. Not unless you were already customizing to try to make something other than Control-d delete forward. By changing the default, you're introducing a completely new problem for your existing user base. Seriously, why *isn't* anyone arguing for pending-delete being the default. Is the argument any different at all? Rick