Re: [PATCH] Change <delete> to delete forward in the editor menu.

Kurt Hackenberg <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:47:51 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mutt.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 21:01 +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:

>>can you, Jim, or Claus, please explain how *ALIASING* Delete and 
>>Backspace to do the same thing is "good"?
>
>I'd like to hear more too.

I've been around Unix for a long time, and if I ever saw Delete delete 
backward, I've forgotten it. (I seem to remember all those keys off to 
the right being unreliable, long ago.) And I agree that it's not ideal 
for two keys to do the same thing.

I lean toward making this change -- make Delete delete forward.