Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > It is not a good thing for a major mode to redefine DEL or Backspace
> > so drastically, because that breaks a general convention that is supposed
> > to be universal in Emacs.  It is ok to have an option to do this,
> > but it should not be the default.
> 
> I'd suggest that if we start fiddling with such code, we introduce a generic
> way to electrify backspace.  Otherwise people who want it need to enable it
> separately (and differently) for each and every major mode they use.

While we are electrifying, I want to point out the complete lack of
an "LF" key on almost all of today's keyboards.  I think that in most
modes, people would prefer to have RET bound to newline-and-indent
instead of newline.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum