From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:00:34 -0700 Message-ID: <9097FACF3DC04EAEB224145FBB232143@us.oracle.com> References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284822110 14085 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 15:01:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:01:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Stefan Monnier'" , "'Miles Bader'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 17:01:36 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 1Owyuy-0006ve-5b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:01:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59877 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Owyur-0008U3-J9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:01:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50074 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Owyu7-0008DX-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:01:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwytZ-0000kw-TL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:00:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:38290) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwytY-0000kN-7m; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o8IF02Kv011968 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:00:03 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt353.oracle.com (acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o8IEnrrm007648; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:00:01 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt007.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 609762351284821987; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:59:47 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.218.112) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:59:47 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: ActXDEprbqxKfyxRTVqnA3RvulUdAQANaEbA In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 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:130409 Archived-At: > > Is there any particular _reason_ for C-d to have this > > effect? > > I don't know what was Chong's motivation for it, but one reason i that > the `delete' key is often remapped to C-d. That's not a reason. That's not a reason to change the behavior of either/both of them. People maybe often call you "Stef" (dunno). That's not a reason why both "Stef" and "Stefan" should suddenly start referring to a completely different person/behavior whenever the moon is full.