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

Karl> I find myself wondering how many keymaps would have to be Karl> examined, in order to hunt down all the <delete> entries, in Actually, not as many as one would think... Martin> A mode should probably examine delete-key-deletes forward Martin> to know what to do. Is there a better mechanism to allow Martin> user configurability? (Of course there is. But what is Martin> it?) That's the way the more intelligent[1] modes (ccmode, python-mode, cperl, etc.) generally do it. It's also a fairly reliable way of determining what the user expects to happen when he/she presses the "key marked <del>" vice what _we_ expect to happen. Martin> When help conflicts with deleting backwards, deletion has Martin> to win, since it is the more important operation, and f1 Martin> is available on almost all ttys for getting help. I agree with this 100%. -- Gary F. Footnotes: [1] "intelligent" being defined loosely as "does more than just simple one-character deletion in any direction when BS/del is pressed. -- "Yes, the airlines are cutting back on food service, as was dramatically demonstrated on a recent New-York-to-London flight wherein nine first-class passengers were eaten by raiders from coach." -- Dave Barry