--- a/lisp/cc-mode/cc-cmds.el	Mon Aug 13 09:47:55 2007 +0200
+++ b/lisp/cc-mode/cc-cmds.el	Mon Aug 13 09:49:09 2007 +0200
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
 	    blink-paren-function
 	    (insertion-point (point))
 	    delete-temp-newline
-	    (preserve-p (eq 32 (char-syntax (char-before))))
+	    (preserve-p (eq ?  (char-syntax (char-before))))
 	    ;; shut this up too
 	    (c-echo-syntactic-information-p nil)
 	    (syntax (progn
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@
 
 ;; set up electric character functions to work with pending-del,
 ;; (a.k.a. delsel) mode.  All symbols get the t value except
-;; c-electric-delete which gets 'supersede.
+;; the functions which delete, which gets 'supersede.
 (mapcar
  (function
   (lambda (sym)
@@ -651,8 +651,10 @@
    c-electric-semi&comma
    c-electric-lt-gt
    c-electric-colon))
-(put 'c-electric-delete 'delete-selection 'supersede) ; delsel
-(put 'c-electric-delete 'pending-delete   'supersede) ; pending-del
+(put 'c-electric-delete    'delete-selection 'supersede) ; delsel
+(put 'c-electric-delete    'pending-delete   'supersede) ; pending-del
+(put 'c-electric-backspace 'delete-selection 'supersede) ; delsel
+(put 'c-electric-backspace 'pending-delete   'supersede) ; pending-del
 
 
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