XEmacs & CPerl: DEL doesn't forward-delete?

[Ralf G. R. Bergs]

Hi there,

I'm having a hard time fighting with XEmacs and/or CPerl.

For whatever reason the DEL key deletes backwords in XEmacs, but ONLY
in CPerl mode. In the scratch buffer or in CC mode DEL works as
expected. The same is true for XTerm windows (i.e. works as expected.)

Option "Delete Key Deletes Forward" *is* active.

Any ideas?!

Thanks for your help. This is really driving me crazy!!

Ralf