#2 New Emacs 21 keymap breaks mh-previous-page

[Bill Wohler]

From: chad brown <y@mit.edu>
Subject: 21.0.95 stomping DEL binding in mh-e
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 00:57:57 -0500

The DEL/<delete>/<backspace> change in 21.0.95 has caused this code in mh-e.el to stop working as intended:

(define-key mh-folder-mode-map "\177" 'mh-previous-page)

It should be either replaced (or perhaps augmented) with:

(define-key mh-folder-mode-map [(delete)] 'mh-previous-page)
(define-key mh-folder-mode-map [(backspace)] 'mh-previous-page)

to get proper behavior for mh-e.

chad

[Peter S Galbraith]

Chad emailed the following comment:

`Emacs-21 will have a new way to deal with DEL, to differentiate Delete and Backspace. I believe that the patch should be applied even if the emacs people determine that "\177" should work. Some simple testing indicates that the additional lines cause no problems for Emacs 20.7.'

[Bill Wohler]

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: 21.0.95 stomping DEL binding in mh-e
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:05:32 +0200 (IST)

On 17 Jan 2001, Bill Wohler wrote:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > I believe we are going to go back to treating it as DEL (but only on
> > some keyboards). Thus we will correct the way we handle the bindings
> > of Backspace and Delete so that they use the same mechanism used in
> > previous Emacs versions.
>
> Does that imply that we *should* incorporate Chad's patch, we
> *could* incorporate Chad's patch, or that we should avoid it?

Personally, I'd suggest not to bother. This should be fixed, one way
or the other, when the next pretest is out.