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Richard Stallman wrote:

>    For a non-expert user I think the current code is more correct.  If you 
>    have both keys and one doesn't do what you expect, you probably will 
>    try the other.  But if Backspace or Delete is mapped to a non-obvious 
>    key combination that you don't know about, the best thing is to not 
>    turn on normal-erase-is-backspace.
>
>Ok.  Could you add a comment to that place in the code
>explaining this reasoning for deciding not to change it?
>

Done.

    Jan D.