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

Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Jesus. And I thought RMS had an attitude the size of Montana. You're entitled to any opinion you wish to hold, and I'm entitled to mine, but let's just make it bloody damn clear that it is *you* who are farting around with default behavior that has existed in Emacs for something like 15 years, all in the name of pseudo-"progress" embodied by the Keymap Purity Hit Squad. This really takes the cake. Spare me the crap -- I'm not lying to anything or anybody. I'm using the advertised features of the supplied program, precisely in the manner in which they are intended to be used -- I'm using the configurability of xterm to make my life easier, by changing its standardized behavior to something more personally palatable. Gee, howzabout that. If I then have to fart around with *XEmacs'* new misconceptions of standardized behavior to get corrected personalized behavior, am I "lying" to XEmacs? Of course not. What semantic nonsense. This doesn't mean squat, because the problem is not casual use of forward and backward deletion, but rather complex keymaps which depend *specifically* on the availability of a DEL keysym. Talk about "changing the subject," sheesh, the subject is those complex keymaps and their current failure modes. Nonetheless, let me tip my hat with considerable thanx to Kyle for pointing me to the correct incantation needed to eliminate the entirety of the misinterpretation of \177 as BS, using (setq tty-erase-char nil). good night, --karl, "geezer" who is disgusted by the bandwidth occupation induced by XEmacs 21 under X over a phone line, and who thus likes ttys *just fine* as a substitute, because he still manages to get work done in a tty over a phone line, something he can't generally say for 21 under X over a phone line.