Subject: bug#29430: bug#37447: 26.3; Commands on <delete> and <backspace>

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:30:36 +0100

Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]> writes:

> Seems to be on purpose, bindings.el:1236:
>
> ;;; These are dangerous in various situations,
> ;;; so let's not encourage anyone to use them.
> ;;;(define-key global-map [C-M-delete] 'backward-kill-sexp)
> ;;;(define-key global-map [C-M-backspace] 'backward-kill-sexp)

I've now reinstated the bindings, since X stopped killing itself if you
hit those keys decades ago (in all mainstream configurations).

The merged bug report discussed moving some of other related keys
around, and the conclusions was that we don't want to do that, so I'm
closing this bug report.

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