Excellent summary. This problem needs sorting out. Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anyways, I don't want to mess around with different meanings of > the Backspace/Delete keys all the time just because the author of Emacs > did this mistake!
Absolutely. > Let me summarize (and please correct me if I'm wrong): > > 1) everyone agrees that "Backspace" (the "<--" key) should delete to the > left Yes. > 2) that "Delete" (the "del" key, or "Entf" for germans :-) should delete > the key the cursor is standing on Yes. In addition, the left arrow should probably move to the left without deleting. I'd be happy for this to be a guideline where that key is used. This is less important than the previous two points. > 3) ^H (that is Ctrl-H) should act like "Backspace" > 4) except within emacs, where ^H should bring up the online help > No real comment about 3 and 4. Ideally this should work logging in to and from remote machines as well. > Anyways, I'm talking about the "default kbd configuration" of a Debian > system. Everyone is free to override this with his own meaning of some > keys. Exactly. > > For example, we could ask the user at installation time of the emacs > package, whether he/she wants to > > a) ^H _and_ Backspace to bring up the help screen > or > b) ^H _and_ Backspace delete the character to the left > > Of course, some workaround we be good. > > > Change thingslike this around, and see another jihad erupt ;-) > > Hey, I'm not going to give up that early! Excellent. > > BTW, I not talking about implementing the keyboard configuration as > described in the LJ article. However, the article is good to understand > the concepts of key translation in a Linux system and the problems that > arrise with it. > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
