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To: Pete Ware <ware@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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Subject: Re: Delete vs 177 [PATCH]
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From: Gary.Foster@Corp.Sun.COM (Gary D. Foster)
Date: 10 Jun 1997 10:55:35 -0700
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Pete Ware <ware@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:

> What's with axing the two conflicting definitions of ^X-delete?
> (from files.el)
> 	...
> 
> 	-(define-key global-map "\M-\177" 'backward-kill-word)
> 	+;;(define-key global-map "\M-\177" 'backward-kill-word)

Because they should be bound to meta-delete, not \M-\177.  And they
are also not consistent.

Now, with delete-erases-forward set to t, pressing Del causes one
character to the right to be erased, but pressing Meta Del causes one
word to the LEFT to be erased.

That's not very consistent, and should probably honor the choice set
by delete-erases-forward (either backward-kill-word or
forward-kill-word).

That's why.

-- Gary F.

