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From: msf@amelia (Michael S. Fischbein)
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Subject: Re: gnumacs bindings
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Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 05:58:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 23 05:58:58 1987
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In article <69@piring.cwi.nl> steven@cwi.nl (Steven Pemberton) writes:
>The ISO specification that I have in front of me says thet DEL is used
>to erase or obliterate an erroneous or unwanted character in punched
>tape. This would suggest (if we were trying to retain compatibility
>with the original definitions of these characters) that delete-char
>would be a better binding for DEL. But we ain't, so we can choose to
>use them how we like.

That's good, because the paper tape DEL is a delete-FORWARD-character.
That would really confuse many users, and it still leaves open the question
of what to use for a delete-BACKWARD-character.  I find RMS's argument
in favor of ^H to be reasonable, but it should be easier to change in
the flexible, extensible editor thatn it is currently.  Same for the
^S for search: it makes sense, but conflicts with many installations.
Fortunately, that one is very easy to change.

		mike

Michael Fischbein                 msf@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov
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