[8580] in Athena Bugs
rsaix 7.3R: CapsLock makes Backspace not be Delete
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce R. Lewis)
Wed Nov 13 15:42:16 1991
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: rs6000-comments@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 15:42:09 EST
From: "Bruce R. Lewis" <brlewis@Athena.MIT.EDU>
System name: splat
Type and version: POWER 7.3R
Display type: graygda
What were you trying to do?
Delete characters backwards in emacs.
What's wrong:
When CapsLock is off, no problem. When CapsLock is on, I get
^H.
What should have happened:
Emacs should never have used ^H for help, since that is the code
for backspace on lots of platforms. However, it's too late to fix that
now.
What can be done about it:
It's too late to fix emacs, but it's not too late to do the same
thing for CapsLock-Backspace that was done for plain Backspace to bind
it to Delete.
