Above all, do no harm.   <br><br>I am opposed because I fear my ingrained habits would thrown me under a train.   The del key is not the backspace key, by the way.   The differences between the ways these keys work, or not, seems like a theological argument.   <br>

<br>Forgive me for not answering each point.   I am pretty strongly opposed.<br><br>I am a mostly non-programmer, for whom Emacs is an underpinning of my work style.   <br><br>Alan Davis<br>