With the discussion of the "backspace direction reversion" lately, I thought I would give it a try. For the longest time, I've had the key above return (marked BackSpace on my Sun Type-5 keyboard) set up to return a Delete keysym and had set my tty erase to ^?. So I changed my tty erase character and my xmodmap settings so that backspace returned a backspace. Then I set delete-key-deletes-forward to t as Steve wanted. Everything pretty much works as expected[1], and works fine on a sun console window! There is one problem: mh-e expects DEL to scroll back the message buffer. This doesn't work anymore since my backspace key doesn't say DEL anymore. I suspect every single package that binds DEL to something is broken since the backspace key doesn't return DEL anymore. This is easy to fix for an experienced user, but we should fix all of the packages to bind the appropriate key depending on the setting of delete-key-deletes-forward. (Hmm, What happens if the user changes the value during a session? What should happen?) Ray Footnotes: [1] Well, netscape didn't like it anymore, but that's because I forgot to remove my .motifbind file to get netscape to understand my old setup. Changing backspace to generate BS also had a nice effect on another application I use at work that had BS and DEL hardwired and therefore broken in my old setup, but corrected now. Cool!