[plug] OT Xemacs and lisp and perl

[navarre at plug.linux.org.au]

Hello List

I am belting my head against a wall here using xemacs in cperl mode.
As far as I can tell when I have a perl file in the active editing buffer 
there is a chunk of lisp code in action robbing me of the delete-forward 
functionality on my delete key. It is being changed to delete-backward 
like the backspace key.

When I have a html or javascript or fundamental mode file in the edit 
buffer the delete key deletes forward. The behaviour changes as soon as I 
attempt to edit a perl file. I have been looking at the cperl-mode.el 
file attempting to understand it and failing because no matter what 
changes I make to the function calls being bound to the keys the 
behaviour does not change. 

This is important to me as xemacs is my production tool and it is broken 
for perl and need to write a lot of perl code. I basicly need to find the 
mechanisum that is causing the change of action of the key and stop it.


Thanks.
Navarre