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Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> I don't know what was Chong's motivation for it, but one reason is
> that the `delete' key is often remapped to C-d.

Indeed.  I suppose we could get away with mapping C-d to delete-char and
[delete] to delete-forward-char.  The main disadvantage would be the
breaking of the equivalence of C-d and DEL.