Re: rxvt vs xterm keybindings

[Richard M. Stallman]

    This actually brings us a step closer to another proposal that is
    needed for the multi-tty branch: each one of the term/*.el files
    should define an autoloaded function called
    TERMNAME-initialize-terminal. Then when emacs wants to initialize a
    terminal TERMNAME it does something like:
    (if (fboundp 'TERMNAME-initialize-terminal)
        (TERMNAME-initialize-terminal))
    instead of having the terminal initialization performed (as it is
    currently done) by doing (load "term/TERMNAME") 

This seems like a good idea.  If an autoloadable terminal-specific
function exists for TERMNAME, fboundp will return t.  Otherwise it
will return nil.