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Subject: Religion and the art of keybindings
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From: Gary.Foster@Corp.Sun.COM (Gary D. Foster)
Date: 29 Apr 1997 16:58:29 -0700
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Ok, I know I'm asking for it... but go ahead, start a war. :)

What are the desired keybindings for this weird "pc mode" crap?  It
seems to me that the pc-select.el sets up the following:

delete = delete-char
backspace = delete-backward-char

Ok, these make sense...

These don't, however:

control delete = kill-line
control backspace = backward-kill-word
meta delete = backward-kill-word
meta backspace = undo

Ok, this seems pretty stupid, shouldn't it be more like:

	control delete = kill-word
	control backspace = backward-kill-word
	meta delete = kill-line
	meta backspace = backward-kill-line

Just to be consistent?

There's some weird bindings that were "suggested by RMS" which include 
some really weird bindings like "control escape = list-buffers" and
such that quite frankly seem completely stupid and might *gasp* be
nuked completely if there's no hue and cry as well.

If we can reach some sort of consensus, I'll spin off a variant of
this for inclusion.

-- Gary F.

