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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: gnumacs bindings
Message-ID: <4422@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 14:44:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 14:44:24 1987
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Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
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>Just to further complicate the issue, look at the thousands of
>applications that run on MS-DOS machines.  They all seem to agree on
>what DEL should be used for.  It is used to delete the character
>underneath the blinking cursor; in other words, it is equivalent to
>C-d!!  They also all agree that Backspace (sometimes the key is
>labeled "Backspace" and sometimes "<-") deletes the previous character.

Well, this is not really true.  The "DELETE" key on a PC is NOT the
same as the "DEL" key on most terminals.  It does not generate the same
key value when struck (It generates an "extended keyboard code", not
the DEL value of 0x7F), and was obviously intended to be paired with
the INSERT key (just as the Page Up and Page Dn keys are paired also).

Actually, DEL IS available on the PC keyboard:  It is mapped as SHIFT "<-"
(SHIFT "Backspace").