From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.50; delete vs deletechar Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:40:45 -0700 Message-ID: <200709040340.l843end3009086@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188877414 14485 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2007 03:43:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 03:43:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, raman@users.sourceforge.net, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 04 05:43:31 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 1ISPK5-0004gl-0i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:43:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISPK3-0004wf-6y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:43:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISPJz-0004wY-EQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:43:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISPJw-0004w8-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:43:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISPJw-0004w5-NJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:43:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISPJw-0004D5-Du for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:43:20 -0400 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISPJh-0001WY-Li for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISPJr-0004Bz-36 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:43:19 -0400 Original-Received: from oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISPJq-0004BP-89; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:43:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l843end3009086; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:40:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 03 Sep 2007 20\:57\:43 -0400") Original-Lines: 18 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.051, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44, FS_VS 0.39) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-Detected-Kernel: Solaris 9 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:77714 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:19726 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > 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? Is there any evidence that normal-erase-is-backspace-mode is not working properly? There is a new function normal-erase-is-backspace-setup-frame that is called from make-frame, so it seems probable that it does setup things correctly.