Re: XEmacs 21 /vs./ my keyboard: I want my DEL back
Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes:
When help conflicts with deleting backwards, deletion has to win,
since it is the more important operation, and f1 is available on
almost all ttys for getting help.
Wow. That's an incredibly aggressive assumption. The fact that F1
exists has next to no relation to whether it is available. For me, my
entire set of Fx keys is bound to an assortment of random xterm
functions via Xdefaults; none of Fx generates a standard character
sequence that gets to the application running in the xterm. That is,
if one wishes to discuss "more important operations," I consider the
ability of my xterm to provide font-switching, personalized canned
character sequences, and selection insertions to be far more important
operations than having two flavors of character deletion, a capability
I don't recall ever having wanted.