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

Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:36:26 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mutt.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-07-25 14:21:27 -0300, Jim via Mutt-dev wrote:
> So if mutt is changed so that DEL deletes forward, this will send me down
> the rabbit hole of figuring out how to make all the programs I use happy at
> the same time.

No! No-one wants to do that. The proposal is to change the <Delete> *key*
to delete forward.

When the system is correctly configured, Mutt just sees the keys
(provided by curses), not the sequences that encode them internally.

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