From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Mikhail P <mikpom@fastmail.com>
Cc: 48695@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48695: python.el *-backspace functionality behavior
Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 03:13:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgwfzmmm.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4794da07-11d7-143c-9a9c-7d2cd449763a@fastmail.com> (Mikhail P.'s message of "Fri, 28 May 2021 08:06:50 +0700")
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Mikhail P <mikpom@fastmail.com> writes:
> Greetings!
>
> The steps are :
>
> 1. start emacs with emacs -Q
>
> 2. visit a (empty) file with .py extension (so built-in Python major mode is activated)
>
> 3. type a block of code containing indented line, e.g.
>
> for i in range(10):
>
> print(i)
>
> 4. Move the cursor at the very end of the code example (after print(i)) and activate
> the mark
>
> 5. Move the cursor at the beginning of print(i), so it is on p.
>
> 6. hit backspace.
>
> 7. selected text (print(i)) is not deleted but dedented instead)
Thanks for the recipe -- I can reproduce this in both Emacs 28 and 27.1.
If point is anywhere else than at the "p", the <backspace> works as
expected, but if it's a the "p", it deletes the leading spaces instead.
Most peculiar.
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2021-05-27 7:11 bug#48695: python.el *-backspace functionality behavior Mikhail P
2021-05-27 23:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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2021-05-28 1:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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