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From: Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
To: P E Jareth Hein <jhod@po.iijnet.or.jp>
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Subject: Re: Religious Wars, Take 2
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P E Jareth Hein writes:

 > Well, now that we've gotten all worked up over the colors issue, how
 > about something that is probably more of concern to the first time
 > user: backspace/delete fuckage. Does ANYBODY like the way things
 > are now?

Nope. (that goes for everyone I know too).

 > If not, why aren't they fixed? What's the history here? This has
 > to be a question EVERY person I've tried to get to use XEmacs has
 > asked me about.

Are you familiar with `delbackspace'. This package (which is bundled
with XEmacs but not enabled by default) makes the Delete key work
properly.

IMHO, having a working Delete key is a sufficient priority to make it
the default behaviour. I don't think anyone likes the current
behaviour either, (except whoever thought up the default key
bindings).

 > Heck, if I understood what the issues were, I'll voulnteer to fix them
 > after I get kinsoku and egg/wnn squared away.

I find it ironic that XEmacs has better support for complex input
methods like wnn than for forward deletion.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>

