[Patch] BackSpace/Delete don't have unambiguous ASCII equivalents

I'm posting this here because it probably warrants more discussion than it's going to get if I post it to xemacs-patches. The primary motivation for this was to fix the problem whereby doing: M-x set-variable RET some-variable RET xxx<BackSpace> brings up a help buffer. Now, there may be other ways of fixing the above problem, but neither of these mappings correspond to the way that my system works, and the same is probably true for many (and maybe even most) other systems. So far, the only thing which appears to break is eterm, which is something of a special case anyhow (IMHO). And I believe that there are better ways of dealing with this for eterm (patch sent to xemacs-patches and Per). -- Glynn Clements <glynn(a)sensei.co.uk&gt; --- lisp/events.el~ Sun Apr 5 04:59:48 1998 +++ lisp/events.el Fri May 29 04:33:49 1998 ＠＠ -120,8 +120,6 ＠＠ (while pairs (puthash (pop pairs) (pop pairs) keyboard-translate-table))) -(put 'backspace 'ascii-character ?\b) -(put 'delete 'ascii-character ?\177) (put 'tab 'ascii-character ?\t) (put 'linefeed 'ascii-character ?\n) (put 'clear 'ascii-character 12)