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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: gnumacs bindings
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Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 14:01:43 EDT
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> Richard Stallman wants the DEL key to delete because it really means
> "delete", and he thinks that backspace doesn't mean delete. 

Of course, it is stretching it to think that BACKSPACE means help.
If it isn't going to mean backward-delete-char, it ought to be
backward-char.  Such is life.

The main problem with changing either these or ^S and ^Q is that
most of the el code in EMACS assumes they know what the user's
keys were when they do local bindings.

-Ron