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Subject: Backspace == help
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If I do:

	M-x set-variable RET ... RET ...<Backspace>

I get the documentation for the specified variable. I'd prefer it if
the previous character was deleted.

I tracked it down as far as determining that
event-matches-key-specifier-p says that a `backspace' event matches
help-char, and then got rather lost in keymap.c

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Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>

