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From: vibhavp@gmail.com
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master f469024: Use delete-char instead of delete-backward-char.
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 01:51:33 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4mszqk2.fsf@lenovog410.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvlhis3gg7.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:04:59 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> FWIW, my suggestion to use call-interactively was just that:
> a suggestion.  I don't know this cperl's command well enough to know
> what should ideally be done.  It might even be that using delete-char
> really is The Right Thing.  Noone can know which is right before he/she
> looks at the function in enough detail to know how&when the various
> alternatives will behave differently (after which it's generally easy
> to figure out which one is best).
IIUC, the function is a cperl-mdoe local implementation of
delete-backward-char (bound to <backspace> for most fundamental
modes). It works similarly to c-electric-backspace, and manages
indentation and other language-specific stuff (I think).

Thanks, I've pushed the patch.
-- 
Vibhav Pant
vibhavp@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-19 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20150318194629.7043.70347@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <E1YYJvB-0001qD-9d@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-03-19  3:18   ` [Emacs-diffs] master f469024: Use delete-char instead of delete-backward-char Stefan Monnier
2015-03-19  3:58     ` John Wiegley
2015-03-19  7:25       ` ChangeLogs Ivan Shmakov
2015-03-19 21:39         ` ChangeLogs Paul Eggert
2015-03-19  4:59     ` [Emacs-diffs] master f469024: Use delete-char instead of delete-backward-char Vibhav Pant
2015-03-19 18:48     ` vibhavp
2015-03-19 20:04       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-19 20:21         ` vibhavp [this message]
2015-03-19 20:57           ` Stefan Monnier

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