Lourens Veen said... | |Right, but then there's another problem (at least for me). How would I |change my Xmodmap so that gimp will do a delete-forward when I press my |delete key? There would have to be at least one X key message that gets |interpreted as such, otherwise modifying Xmodmap to get the old |behaviour back would be impossible. I completely agree. |I appreciate that on text terminals it's unavailable, simply because it |does not make sense, but that does not mean that windowing systems |should remain without delete-forward. It's the common way of doing |things, and even if in theory it is wrong then one should ask whether to |change the standard, try to change practice, or simply supporting both. Absolutely. And there are gazillions of people who *expect* to have both delete-forward and delete-backward supported, usually handled by (surprise!) Delete and Backspace. And since the GIMP is pretty useless in a test terminal only world, I don't see text terminal stuff mattering. And the fact is, I worked on text terminals for years before graphics wree common. I still do the majority of my work on Linux in terminal windows. And I wanted both delete-forward and delete-backwards based on rational keys (like Delete and Backspace) even back then. It's real handy with editors. The whole world isn't emacs. -Miles
