From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:45:25 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87fwx78jwq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83lj6zz9o0.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284803149 10973 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 09:45:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:45:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 11:45:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwtzO-00006L-Rf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:45:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50220 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwtzN-0003KM-BG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53069 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwtzF-0003Jw-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:45:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwtzE-0002bk-2F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:45:37 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36015) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwtzD-0002ba-Rg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwtzC-0008RD-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:45:34 +0200 Original-Received: from p508edaf8.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.218.248]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:45:34 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508edaf8.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:45:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508edaf8.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:A0kLKeEYR/xFf+NHUEt0zDwhHCw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130385 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Miles Bader >> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:49:19 +0900 >> >> I propose removing this functionality from C-d. If mac/windows users >> want to delete a region, they can use DEL (backspace). > > There's no DEL key on Windows, only , which is remapped to > C-d. Maybe the command should distinguish whether it was run by C-d > or , and behave differently wrt the active region. > > Deleting an active region with Backspace is a bad idea, IMO: that's > not how other apps behave, while this feature exists to be compatible > with other apps. Just tried it in the location bar of firefox. Backspace certainly does delete an active region there. -- David Kastrup