Should pending-del be enabled by default?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Malcolm" == Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp at xemacs.org> writes:

    Malcolm> Since we're all in violent agreement for enabling it
    Malcolm> under Windows, the question really is what's the value
    Malcolm> for enabling it under Xt?

None.  The question is should it be enabled on platforms where Xt is
the default, and that should be decided platform-by-platform.  I use
Xt on Mac OS X, and it's annoying not to have pending-del there when
most everything else is Aqua, and even Firefox and Netscape have
pending-del on by default.

So the question is going to be Linux and the *BSDs, and there I think
the favor-the-newbie rule applies, and says "pending-del on by
default".  I'm willing to hear evidence to the contrary, but even for
someone who lives in XEmacs, and browses the web with lynx in an
xterm, I think we should try to detect that, rather than screw all the
users who are coming from Windows or Macs to Linux and BSD.  I suspect
detecting that is hard; those people probably all run Gnumeric with
pending-del customized OFF, so we'll have to learn to parse GConf
config files to figure it out ;-).

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