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23.0.60; delete key and deletechar

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Message #59 received at 2057-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Robert Brown <brown <at> google.com>
Cc: 2057-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2057: 23.0.60; delete key and deletechar
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:19:00 -0400

> I still think it may incorrect for Emacs to map single character function
> key sequences.  But perhaps these just never occur in practice.

I do agree that your patch seems reasonable.  But there might be
terminals where function keys send non-ASCII single byte codes in which
case your patch would be incorrect.  Now I don't know whether such
terminals are more or less rare than those who send ASCII codes for
function keys.  So at least, for the purpose of the current pretest, I'd
rather keep the old behavior (that's been around for many years) rather
than risk breaking some oddball system out there.  Especially since your
particular problem really turned out to be a bug in the termcap.


        Stefan

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