Delete or backspace on HHKB?

[sandywind]

How many of you have a HHKB have set it to output BS when Delete is pressed, maybe specifically to correct mistakes on the last typed word?

I have not, but I wonder whether it is more ergonomic to repeatedly type BS to correct a mistake, or type left arrow,  correct, then End, or even select the word backwards and type over, on editors that allow it, and disregard the question entirely.

[davkol]

This is more related to the original design of the HHKB. Old unix machines had a Delete key, instead of Backspace; see, for example, Sun Type 3.

If you used Emacs (as Eiichi Wada did), Ctrl-D would be delete and Ctrl-H backspace.