[ESS-bugs] ess-mode 5.3.8; when editing R documents, 'delete' key behaves as 'backspace'

[Stephen Eglen]

> I have found a solution to this problem:
> All I need to do is to comment out line 173 of ess-mode.el, which says:
>   (define-key ess-mode-map "\177"	'backward-delete-char-untabify)
> After this line is commented out, DEL key deletes forward, the same as
> in all other modes.
> Does that mean that it was an intended behavior in ESS?

great, thanks for reporting this.  That code has probably been there a
long time, so I'd imagine that yes, its intended.  Stephen