From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.50; delete vs deletechar Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:57:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20070901042330.B110A12A4547@localhost> <3dps10x3u7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <18139.14467.145361.986008@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <2tir6sgufp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <18140.20033.201160.345776@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188867726 27589 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2007 01:02:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 01:02:06 +0000 (UTC) To: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, raman@users.sf.net Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 04 03:02:05 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ISMnt-0001XW-6C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:02:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISMnr-0005YO-UZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISMjx-0000ZA-34 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:58:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISMjw-0000YX-7P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:58:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISMjv-0000YR-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:57:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISMjv-0001l9-4G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:57:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISMjf-0001mC-Pv; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:57:43 -0400 In-reply-to: <18140.20033.201160.345776@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raman@users.sf.net) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:77706 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:19724 Archived-At: After reading the recent messages, I am not sure whether people agree there is indeed now a problem in the decision about which character should delete backwards. But it occurs to me that when using multiple terminals, it could happen that some of them want BACKSPACE to delete backwards and some want DELETE to do it. So shouldn't normal-erase-is-backspace-mode operate on local-function-key-map?