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To: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
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Subject: Re: BS/DEL code changes [PATCH]
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From: Gary.Foster@Corp.Sun.COM (Gary D. Foster)
Date: 16 Jun 1997 12:26:27 -0700
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>>>>> "Hrv" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

    Hrv> Unlike Ebola, I'm not convinced that these are really a bad
    Hrv> thing.

    Hrv> Why exactly are they frowned upon now?

They're not frowned upon and they're not a bad thing... not at all.
The only issue really is that binding "\177" used to cover both the
DEL and BS keys without much hassling around and now you have to
explicitly bind to both keysyms instead of just binding to "\177" if
you expect both DEL and BS to do the same thing.

It's not a problem at all, just a lot of rooting around and cleaning
up.  I managed to get all of them (I think) in the lisp/packages and
lisp/modes directories just before steve released b7 but I didn't have 
time to wend my way through all the rest of them before it hit the
streets.

-- Gary F.

