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From: pedz@bobkat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: gnumacs bindings
Message-ID: <2818@bobkat.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 13:02:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: bobkat.2818
Posted: Mon Sep 21 13:02:25 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 14:21:18 EDT
References: <3720007@hpsemc.UUCP> <3590005@hpindda.HP.COM> <1173@haddock.ISC.COM>
Reply-To: pedz@bobkat.UUCP (Pedz Thing)
Organization: Digital Lynx, Inc; Dallas, TX
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In article <1173@haddock.ISC.COM> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
 >In article <3590005@hpindda.HP.COM> jack@hpindda.HP.COM (Jack Repenning) writes:
 >>Well, yes, that's pretty likely what [RMS] was thinking.  The problem
 >>...
 >
 >The other side of the coin is that the DEL key is awkward to hit.  To
 >paraphrase RMS, "such terminals are inferior merchandise and should not be
 >purchased".  Any decent terminal manufacturer should realize that some
 >operating systems use DEL as the erase character, and the obvious thing to do
 >is to make a key with a neutral label (ERASE, or some flavor of left arrow)
 >which can be programmed to transmit either C-h or DEL (or other).
 >

Yea, the Wyse 60 terminal I have has a soft key with just an arrow on
it.  It comes programmed as a back space.  Unfortunately, the sequence
which programs the key can not contain the delete character so you can
not remotely program it to send a delete.  (You can do it locally from
the keyboard but that kinda sucks.)
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