Re: emacs21, backspace/delete and tty settings

[Stefan Monnier]

> for instance, in the Hemlock editor (an emacs-like editor that came with
> spice-lisp), you could bind functions to something like :help (instead
> of directly to a key), and then somewhere else (probably in the global
> keymap) it would bind whatever key you wanted to :help, so you'd get a
> `double' key lookup:
> 
>       ,---- lookup in the global-map
>       |
>   ^H ---> :help ---> my-mode-help-function
>                  |
>                  `--- lookup in my-mode-local-map

That sounds very much like function-key-map.
The only difference is that the function-key-map binds C-? or
<backspace> to DEL rather than to :del.


        Stefan