Re: B [backspace] should act like B [delete]?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

  > I don't understand any of what you said here, but I know that Karl's
  > patch is quite correct.  Without it, `B backspace' will not work.

OK.  I don't know XEmacs, I wouldn't know.

On Emacs, <backspace> and <delete> (by default) generate the DEL ascii
character in much the same way as <tab> generates the TAB ascii
character.  In Emacs, it is possible to rebind <tab> to forward-char,
say, but C-i still retains the old meaning.

I don't really believe that people turn off the effect that <tab> and
C-i are the same thing, and in the same way I'd be surprised to hear
that people want to turn off the effect that <backspace> and DEL (is
that `C-?'?) are the same thing.

The <delete> key is a different matter altogether.

I think I'm going to install XEmacs at home to see what it is like in
this respect.

kai
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