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Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace |
Date: |
Wed, 19 May 2004 09:45:27 -0400 |
> It is not a good thing for a major mode to redefine DEL or Backspace
> so drastically,
I don't think it's very drastic, else I'd probably agree. It's a
refinement of what many modes do anyway in redefining DEL, and I think
most people editing Python would think it just DTRT (more-or-less).
If it doesn't look like deleting one character backwards,
it is a drastic change.
> The default should be to delete one character backwards,
> one way or another.
Programming modes typically use `backward-delete-char-untabify', not
`delete-backward-char', though some bind it to something different.
This redefinition is ok because it fits with the description that DEL
deletes one character backwards. It reinterprets "one character" in a
legitimate way.
However, to describe the current Python mode definition as "deleting
one character backwards" is clearly untrue. That redefinition does
not reinterpret the description. This command does a different job,
not the same job.
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, (continued)
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/18
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Dave Love, 2004/05/27
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/27
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/28
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Kai Grossjohann, 2004/05/29
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/30
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/30
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/18
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/18
Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Dave Love, 2004/05/18
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Karl Chen, 2004/05/19
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Dave Love, 2004/05/20
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Karl Chen, 2004/05/21
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/23
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Miles Bader, 2004/05/23
- Re: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace, Dave Love, 2004/05/25