New subject: delete-key-deletes-forward

Friday, 25 September 1998

        Glynn Clements <glynn(a)sensei.co.uk&gt; writes:

...
 > With this change (which I basically agree with) there is a
little
 > problem - if you do M-x set-variable RET, then make a typo, there
 > is no way to backspace... the delete key tries to delete forward,
 > so 
That makes 3 of us.

...

 I suggested the following patch: 
Did you post it to xemacs-patches(a)xemacs.org to get it into the formal 
review process?

...
 	(remprop 'backspace 'ascii-character)
 	(remprop 'delete 'ascii-character) 
It does seem to work. However as you suggest it may not be the right
fix. Maybe event loop key look-up is slightly bogus when in the
minibuffer.

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