Ilya Zakharevich <ilya(a)math.ohio-state.edu&gt; writes: Fine with me. Unless 20.x standard emacsen do things different they map [backspace] to \177, using function-key-map, which is unfortunately exactly the wrong thing but needed by historical bagage. Because otherwise it would be a compile time if and I am in the habbit of worrying about .elc compatability and therefor I am used to writing runtime tests only. Because it is the equivalent of a keybinding and that should only be done Jan P.S. I guess abbrev needs to be fixed in XEmacs too so that all this cperl-u