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Re: inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm |
Date: |
08 Feb 2004 08:03:56 +0200 |
> From: Dale Hagglund <rdh@yottayotta.com>
> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 17:32:16 -0700
>
> My question boils down to this: Why not map the kdch1/kD sequence to
> <delete> instead of <deletechar>? Wouldn't that make bindings like
>
> (global-set-key [delete] 'what-ever)
>
> work the same both under X and within xterm or other terminal
> emulators? Please forgive me if I'm missing something blindingly
> obvious here.
Nothing is ever obvious in the key-binding arcana... ;-)
IIRC, it's the other way around: <delete> was there before
<deletechar>, since it worked first in a windowed Emacs. So it's
xterm and other terminals that are chasing window-system. I may be
wrong, though.
In any case, the reason <delete> is mapped to C-d is so you could use
C-d on any text terminal and get the same results.
Re: inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/02/07
Re: inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm, Dale Hagglund, 2004/02/07
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