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From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [mega@hotpop.com: Re: x-backspace-delete-keys-p]
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:50:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42076431.1020805@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Cy52m-0004MP-Ro@fencepost.gnu.org>

Richard Stallman wrote:

>    For a non-expert user I think the current code is more correct.  If you 
>    have both keys and one doesn't do what you expect, you probably will 
>    try the other.  But if Backspace or Delete is mapped to a non-obvious 
>    key combination that you don't know about, the best thing is to not 
>    turn on normal-erase-is-backspace.
>
>Ok.  Could you add a comment to that place in the code
>explaining this reasoning for deciding not to change it?
>

Done.

    Jan D.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-02-07 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-03 19:14 [mega@hotpop.com: Re: x-backspace-delete-keys-p] Richard Stallman
2005-02-03 20:28 ` Jan D.
2005-02-03 20:35   ` Jan D.
2005-02-05 17:38   ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-05 18:08     ` Jan D.
2005-02-06 12:42       ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-06 14:27         ` Jan D.
2005-02-07  9:18           ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-07 12:50             ` Jan D. [this message]

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