Bug 7984

Summary: Don't change global key bindings, and if you do, document it!
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Jonathan Kamens <jik>
Component: emacsAssignee: Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Description Jonathan Kamens 1999-12-24 17:30:54 UTC 
The emacs 20.4-5 packages add global key bindings for \C-h and [delete].
That's REALLY RUDE for those of us who have been using Emacs for years,
have our Emacs configured exactly the way we want it, and don't want
anything to change.

There's already a mechanism in Emacs for making C-h do the right thing on
systems where the backspace key generates C-h.  See, for example, the
"Keyboard Translations" node in the Emacs info page.  Alternatively, people
can remap their backspace key to delete using xmodmap; that is what I do,
and that remapping broke because of the global bindings you added.

And shame on you for making this patently user-visible change without
documenting it in the changelog.
Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2000-02-16 23:47:59 UTC 
I am not sure what change are you talking about - we did not patch any of the
keybindings for emacs in the package we shipped