> > What I consider to be "horribly wrong" is to replace DEL _everywhere_ by > , which was the original suggestion above. I don't object to > handling like DEL in this particular case, especially since we > already did that, since long ago, > This is what I understood, and why I made the same suggestion. I couldn't believe that binding [delete] to scroll-up-command could be wrong. > > and it somehow regressed. > It's because the handling of Delete has changed in Emacs 24. It became "deletechar", it was "delete" earlier. Replacing the two occurrences of "delete" by "deletechar" in help-macro.el fixes the regression. Patch attached.