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From: Gary.Foster@Corp.Sun.COM (Gary D. Foster)
Date: 29 Apr 1997 14:38:07 -0700
In-Reply-To: Kyle Jones's message of Mon, 28 Apr 1997 20:03:41 -0400 (EDT)
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> Not only is it twisted, it looks old.  There's a comment near the
> top that says something should go away when function-key-map is
> implemented.  function-key-map has been implemented.
> 
> To put it in the words of Valentine Michael Smith: I grok wrongness.
> 
> I'm sure I don't know all the issues involved in what this thing 
> is supposed to be fixing.  Most of what I've read has been
> screaming on the net, which has made me want to delete the file
> rather than fix it.
> 
> Could someone please explain in general and gentle language
> what this is all about?  Hopefully when I finish reading your
> explanation I will understand why delbackspace.el looks like it
> does.

Ok, at the risk of starting another rwar, I'll meekly stand up and
take a swing here.  I'm not sure what the problems are with
delbackspace since I have only played with it to point other people
towards it (I basically know what it tries to accomplish and that's
about all).  I'm quite willing, though, to start using it and "trash
my environment" [1] in an effort to get it brought up to date and
fixed.  I'm willing to collect a list of known problems [2], sift,
sort, fold, spindle and mutilate it and apply my meager lisp skills to 
the package.  I'd also be more than happy to scream for help when/if I 
start drowning.

I'm frankly tired of getting beaten up by the people using my
installed version and would just rather fix it right once and for all.

-- Gary F.


Footnotes: 
[1]  As steve puts it :)

[2]  Problems, only, please... no unsubstantiated "flameage"...

