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

Karl> Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Karl> Wow. That's an incredibly aggressive assumption. The fact that F1 Karl> exists has next to no relation to whether it is available. For me, my Karl> entire set of Fx keys is bound to an assortment of random xterm Karl> functions via Xdefaults; none of Fx generates a standard character Karl> sequence that gets to the application running in the xterm. That is, Karl> if one wishes to discuss "more important operations," I consider the Karl> ability of my xterm to provide font-switching, personalized canned Karl> character sequences, and selection insertions to be far more important Karl> operations than having two flavors of character deletion, a capability Karl> I don't recall ever having wanted. I'm sorry, but your desire to only ever delete text in one direction puts you in a rapidly shrinking minority. It is the goal of configurable software like XEmacs to make users like you happy, but not without some effort on your part to change the default behavior. It is of course your perfect right to run your xterm in non-standard fashion. However, if you do so, you have to accept responsibility for informing your applications of your changes. You cannot expect your applications to work out of the box with the function keys that you have. Note that if you have TERM=xterm, and you have changed the sequences sent by your function keys, you are lying to your computer. The `proper' thing to do is for you to create your own terminfo/termcap entry `xterm-karl' and set up your accounts to use this terminfo entry. It is not likely you will actually want to do this work, but tty applications might actually work with your function keys if you did. For just XEmacs, you can frob function-key-map. Martin