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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [WIP PATCH] Adding more keybindings to rectangle-mark-mode-map
Date: Sun, 02 May 2021 19:09:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lf8x6rtv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANh=_JH08O_5+nOfXfcHxjzHngBmRS50Qe7UaRmdE4eZwaZCsQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Sun, 2 May 2021 08:48:21 -0700)

> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 08:48:21 -0700
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 11:58 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> > > Perhaps Edit -> Clear should be bound to `backward-delete-char-untabify'?
> >
> > ??? The latter deletes a single character, whereas delete-region
> > deletes many characters.  How can we replace delete-region by
> > backward-delete-char-untabify?
> 
> Based on what Stefan said (see below), if the region (regular or
> rectangular) is active, `backward-delete-char-untabify' deletes the
> *region* instead of a single character.

Yes.

> I interpreted that to mean that, if Edit -> Clear is only enabled
> when there's an active region/rect, `backward-delete-char-untabify'
> is equivalent to a hypothetical `delete-rect-or-region'.

But Edit->Clear is enabled even when the region is not active, like if
you turn off transient-mark-mode.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-02 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-01  5:23 [WIP PATCH] Adding more keybindings to rectangle-mark-mode-map Jim Porter
2021-05-01 13:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-01 16:02   ` Jim Porter
2021-05-01 17:20     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-01 22:31       ` Jim Porter
2021-05-02  6:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-02 15:48           ` Jim Porter
2021-05-02 16:09             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-05-02 16:36               ` Jim Porter
2021-05-02 18:07                 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-03  4:06                   ` Jim Porter
2021-05-03  7:55                     ` Andreas Schwab
2021-05-03 15:26                       ` Jim Porter
2021-05-08  1:52                         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-08  7:15                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-08  6:55                         ` Andreas Schwab
2021-05-08 18:57                           ` [PATCH] Improve docstring for delete-active-region (was Re: [WIP PATCH] Adding more keybindings to rectangle-mark-mode-map) Jim Porter
2021-06-18  3:09                             ` Jim Porter
2021-06-19 12:27                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-19 16:28                                 ` Jim Porter
2021-05-01 17:26     ` [WIP PATCH] Adding more keybindings to rectangle-mark-mode-map Ergus

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