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

[Kai Großjohann]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> The change would effectively eliminate the feature, which we worked so
> hard to develop, of adapting Emacs behavior to the specific keyboard.
> That would be a big step backwards--no thanks.

Right now, Emacs translates from <backspace> to DEL on some keyboards.
I was proposing to translate from DEL to <backspace>, instead.  I
think that this does not remove features.  (Just to clarify.)

But it would be a big change, since a lot of keymaps have to be
changed to use <backspace> rather than DEL, and I guess that you
wouldn't approve of this.  After all, the current mechanism works
quite well.

I hope that Kim can live with this :-)

kai
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Simplification good!  Oversimplification bad!  (Larry Wall)