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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: More del/bs madness :-) [PATCH]
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Gary D. Foster writes:
 > Ok, ok, I finally admit that the name `backspace-or-delete' is rather
 > ambiguous and not a good name for this function.  It also loses out
 > when trying to extrapolate to deleting words, sentences, etc.
 > 
 > So, in light of that, I've tentatively renamed it to
 > `erase-character', and to celebrate, I'll also throw in `erase-word'
 > and `erase-sentence' for free.  Feel free to pick on the names if you
 > can think of better ones.

As the XEmacs Namespace Czar, I'm not in love with this name
either.  We should stick with established terminology.
`Deleting' and `killing' are the established Emacs terms.
The names should look like this

delete-char-backward-or-forward
kill-word-backward-or-forward
kill-sexp-backward-or-forward

The last two if you decide you want switchable versions of
kill-word and kill-sexp.  These names pass the apropos test.
Alternately

backward-or-forward-delete-char
backward-or-forward-kill-word
backward-or-forward-kill-sexp

These alternate names are also acceptable, and may be a little
better since they have a common prefix that distinguishes them as 
command that obey the delete forward/backward switch variable

delete-ereses-forward should be renamed to delete-key-deletes-forward.
for clarity and terminology conformance.

