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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:39:43 -0600
From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk,
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Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H
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On Mar 03, 1997 at 08:23:27AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <877miussen.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> Andrew Gierth writes:
> : >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Somers <brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org.demon.co.uk> writes:
> :  Brian> I'll co-ordinate with
> :  Brian> Jordan (the maintainer of the emacs port) a patch to change
> :  Brian> the default help key binding to ^x^h (now that's gonna cause
> :  Brian> some "controversial" arguments!) - assuming he agrees.
> 
> That's a *BAD* Idea.  *DO*NOT*CHANGE*EMACS*DEFAULTS*.  Emacs may be

I agree.  I have a whole gaggle of real vt420s and vt220s around here
(they are what we use on the sales floors) and when you press the "<X|" 
key on these things, you will get a "^?" character.

This happens to be hardcoded into lots of our stupid Oracle Forms too.

So "^H" does _NOT_ do the right thing here, ASCII charts, and Terry's rants
nonwithstanding.  Changing the defaults will just break everything again.
--
Jonathan