Re: Backspace direction reversion
> "Per" == Per Abrahamsen <abraham(a)dina.kvl.dk>
writes:
Per> Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com> writes:
> The question that remains in my mind is, "Can we set
> delete-key-deletes-forward to t without hosing a large number of
> existing users?"
Per> For 99.76% of the *new* users[1], DEL deletes forward will be
Per> the right thing. However, *old* users will have to remove some
Per> ugly old hacks they have been forced to install (or their
Per> sysadmin have installed for them), because RMS betted on the
Per> wrong key as winner 15 years ago.
Now that the discussion is dying down, I'll put in my two cents: I
inherited an ugly old hack from my sysadmin when I started using
Emacs, and got bit when I switched to XEmacs, and then was very
pleased to discover a well-defined, well-named interface like
`delete-key-deletes-forward'.
So I agree with everything Per says about hacks and the NEWS file;
and I'd suggest putting a note in the startup message, as well.
Per> configurations without special hacks. However, the change
Per> should be clearly documented in the NEWS file[2], along with
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Sam Mikes
smikes(a)alumni.hmc.edu