Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode

[Kai Großjohann]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I see two ways to improve (or fix) the currrent behaviour:
>
>     1) Modify define-key so that it will recognize DEL, TAB, etc as
>        synonymous for the actual characters.
>
> I see no improvement here--but I am not really sure what this
> concretely means.  What action would you change the meaning of?
> What would you make it do?

I think he wants (define-key foo-map [DEL] 'bar) to behave like
(define-key foo-map (kbd "DEL") 'bar), and similar for TAB and RET
and so on.

Right now, (define-key foo-map [DEL] 'bar) does not do much in most
cases; the only possibly useful behavior would be in binding a menu
entry.

kai
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