From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode as default Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 01:14:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83k1nxvm5j.fsf@gnu.org> <877ejxsm18.fsf@toy.adminart.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536383624 2537 195.159.176.226 (8 Sep 2018 05:13:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 05:13:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 07:13:40 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fyVYy-0000Yu-BS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 07:13:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41336 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyVb4-0002Ge-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 01:15:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50418) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyVZw-0001XM-QP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 01:14:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyVZv-0002KK-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 01:14:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41894) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyVZr-00026w-T0; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 01:14:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fyVZp-00048O-UK; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 01:14:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Fri, 7 Sep 2018 09:16:21 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229474 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)