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Subject: Re: Moving more of character->event handling to Lisp-land
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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 06 Jun 1997 22:13:43 +0200
In-Reply-To: Glynn Clements's message of Fri, 6 Jun 1997 06:02:43 +0100
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Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> 
> >   Fdefine_key (con->function_key_map, build_string ("\177"), QKdelete);
> 
> Is this a temporary thing or is it going to stay like this.
> 
> This is the ASCII code which is generated by the key that generates
> the BackSpace keysym under X, for me at least.
> 
> Also, I was under the impression that BackSpace was the more important 
> of the two keysyms, and should therefore be the default.
> 
> At a minimum, I would argue that if tty-erase-character = \177, then
> \177 should be `BackSpace'.

Please refer to the exhaustive discussion between me and Gary
D. Foster on this topic.

The matter is (unfortunately) quite complex.  In short, I think that
it's not temporary, judging by the way Gary plans to implement
things.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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