On Sat, 8 Sep 2018, 13:17 Richard Stallman, <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

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> I find it a screw that Backspace deletes a highlighted region.  It is
> never what I want -- I always want to delete one character backwards.
>

I believe that the whole idea of active regions was a mistake, and even
though it can be disabled, some Emacs code these days assume it's on to the
extent that 1) it misbehaves when it's off, and 2) it gets turned on
automatically when it's loaded (I'm looking at you, company-mode).

Without active regions, there would never be an expectation that backspace
deletes anything but one character.

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