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To: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
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Subject: Re: XEmacs 20.3-beta4 ("Warsaw") is released
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Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
> > All of Gary Foster's Backspace/Delete patches have been applied.
> 
> Are you aware that this is far from working?  When I put
> 
> (setq delete-erases-forward t)
> 
> in my .emacs, the key above enter erases forward, both on TTY-s and X, 
> which is *not* the way it should be.

In a previous post, you said:

> Pressing the key-above-enter generates a Delete X event for me.

My interpretation of delete-erases-forward is that setting it to t
should make this key delete forward, under X at least.

I was under the impression that the whole reason for making Delete
erase backwards by default was to deal with the case where the
Backspace key (as I would call it) generates Delete.

Maybe a clearer approach would be to replace delete-erases-forward
with delete-is-backspace, and invert the sense.

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

