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To: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
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Subject: Re: DEL patch, as promised.
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From: Gary.Foster@Corp.Sun.COM (Gary D. Foster)
Date: 18 May 1997 15:58:22 -0700
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of 19 May 1997 00:34:40 +0200
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> I would prefer a solution that enabled normal `define-key' to work,
> without the need for an additional hook.  If it proves to be
> impossible, then your hook hack is certainly better than nothing.

This provides that.  It doesn't require you to use the hook at all.
heck, you could use the hook globally for anything you darn well
wanted, I guess, and wouldn't even need to use it at all if you didn't 
want to.  Reduced to ridiculous extremes, I could easily count how
many times I hit the DEL key to figure out how crappy a typist I am,
using this hook.

It seems to me that the only real complaint then is with the presence
of the hook itself and my stubborn insistence that I *like* using the
hook instead of define-key.  Do I understand correctly?  Because this
solution, as far as I can tell, does *exactly* what you ask for in the 
above paragraph... a solution that enables normal 'define-key' to work 
without the *need* for an additional hook.  The mere fact that the
hook exists doesn't imply that you *have* to use it.

Can I go get my beer now?

-- Gary F.

