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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: keyboard mapping, delete-backspace and similar problems
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Gary D. Foster writes:
 > Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
 > 
 > > Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
 > > 
 > > > Nobody has said anything about delbackspace.el, so after 20.2 let's
 > > > nuke the file,
 > > 
 > > O.K.
 > > 
 > > > and port the FSF Emcas pc-mode and pc-select files
 > > > and try to forget about it.  And I mean forget all about it.
 > > 
 > > O.K.  Gary, you volunteered?
 > 
 > Uhm... erp... I guess.  I'm taking a swing now at getting pc-select
 > working as it "probably" should. :)

Let's just stick to porting for now.  As yet, no one has stepped
up and said what the thing ought to do, other than vague hand
waving about Macs and PCs and CDE.  Is the spec written down
anywhere, so that we can actually know when the thing is really
working?  Keybindings are a religious issue, we need something
non-religious to wave (or throw) to quiet the religious screams.

