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Subject: Re: Religious Wars, Take 2
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From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:

> Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:
>> There is a concrete proposal (gather together by Erik Naggum).
>> 1.   Change the help-char to be ?.
>> 2.   Likewise bind M-? to help.
>> 3.   IF we are on X or the user has not got C-h in his stty settings
>> make C-h work as much as before as possible.
>> BUT IF the use has a stty C-h binding for delete and we are not
>> on X then bind C-h to delete-backward-chell.

> I think all of this is OK.  I don't care whether it appears in GNU
> Emacs, I think it's good enough.

> But is this really connected to backspace/delete lossage?  Steve said
> that we treat these keys as a special case.  The problems may be
> deeper.

I would love to go ahead and fix this save for the fact that we have
all kinds of weird special processing I don't understand to merge the
two keysyms and I do not wish XEmacs to have a different Universal
Help character (`product of a diseased mind' it may be) than Emacs.

I wouldn't put it the way Jamie does, but save for the current system
I'm on, every other system I've run Emacs on has had to have special
hackery done to make the key labelled with a back arrow work
properly.  I understand exactly where the complaints are coming from.
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