\C-DEL handling change in 18.55

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From: Nicholas Reingold
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1991 22:04

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In GNU Emacs 18.55 (but NOT in 18.54) we have observed the following
discrepancy:  the emacs-lisp expression ?\M-\C-\177 evaluates to (decimal)
159.  However, the keystroke Meta Control Delete is interpreted by
Fread_char as (decimal) 255.  (In 18.54 the latter also produces
(decimal) 159.)

This has the undesirable consequence that users who bind \M-\C-\177
to some command, such as backward-kill-sexp, cannot invoke it with the
keystroke they expect.




Nick Reingold
Dan Rabin

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