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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950509221924.8461K-100000@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> (message from Terry Lee on Tue, 9 May 1995 22:32:15 -0700 (PDT))
Subject: Re: Backspace and delete problem in X/Netscape
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>>>>> "Terry" == Terry Lee <terryl@cs.stanford.edu> writes:

    Terry> But...  I'm using the us.iso.kbd keymap so that the
    Terry> backspace key is really delete.  As I'm sure most of you
    Terry> know, this get's emacs working right, but netscape is now
    Terry> screwed up.

Oh were it that RMS hadn't been so anal about the One True Meaning of
BackSpace(tm) and the High Mnemonic Value of Control-H for Help(tm) ...

I would just add some translations to your X resources or to
Netscape's app-defaults file ... and take the opportunity to make it
more Emacs-like:

*XmTextField.translations:	#override\n\
	<Key>osfBackSpace:	delete-previous-character()\n\
	<Key>osfDelete:		delete-previous-character()\n\
	<Key>BackSpace:		delete-previous-character()\n\
	<Key>Delete:		delete-previous-character()\n\
	Ctrl<Key>h: 		delete-previous-character()\n\
	Ctrl<Key>d: 		delete-next-character()\n\
	Meta<Key>osfDelete:	delete-previous-word()\n\
	Meta<Key>osfBackSpace:	delete-previous-word()\n\
	Meta<Key>Delete:	delete-previous-word()\n\
	Meta<Key>BackSpace:	delete-previous-word()\n\
	Meta<Key>d:		delete-next-word()\n\
	Ctrl<Key>k:		delete-to-end-of-line()\n\
	Ctrl<Key>g:		process-cancel()\n\
	Ctrl<Key>b:		backward-character()\n\
	<Key>osfLeft:		backward-character()\n\
	Ctrl<Key>f:		forward-character()\n\
	<Key>osfRight:		forward-character()\n\
	Meta<Key>b:		backward-word()\n\
	Meta<Key>osfLeft:	backward-word()\n\
	Meta<Key>f:		forward-word()\n\
	Meta<Key>osfRight:	forward-word()\n\
	Ctrl<Key>e:		end-of-line()\n\
	Ctrl<Key>a:		beginning-of-line()\n\
	Ctrl<Key>w:		cut-clipboard()\n\
	Meta<Key>w:		copy-clipboard()\n\
	<Btn2Up>:		copy-primary()\n