Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode

[Kai Großjohann]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Currently, view-mode only binds DEL to scroll backwards.
> This is probably ok for ttys, but it doesn't work under X
> (at least not in my setup).

Did you bind (kbd "<backspace>")?  Don't do that.  function-key-map
says to generate DEL when the user hits <backspace>.

Try "emacs -q -no-site-file" then C-h c <backspace>.  For me, this
reports "DEL runs the command backward-delete-char-untabify" or so.

Opinions?

kai
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