From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Updated proposal for DEL to delete active region Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 17:03:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ljbbbzl1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <611EBC8A88E34310966D561E92C6B1B3@us.oracle.com> <87ljbby08e.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274735126 6971 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2010 21:05:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 21:05:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 24 23:05:23 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1OGepr-0000C2-ID for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 23:05:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41775 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGepq-0000Uq-S8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 17:05:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47202 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGeo6-0007Ts-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 17:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGenw-00065G-Pb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 17:03:30 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:21308 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGenw-000653-M5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 17:03:20 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAKSG+ktFpZMM/2dsb2JhbACeAHK/eIUTBIw/ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,293,1272859200"; d="scan'208";a="64950161" Original-Received: from 69-165-147-12.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.147.12]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 24 May 2010 17:03:11 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 879F98267; Mon, 24 May 2010 17:03:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sun, 23 May 2010 19:10:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:125209 Archived-At: >> This is not entirely academic. For instance, when overwrite-mode is >> active, delete-backward-char untabifies while deleting. This behavior >> is useful when called interactively, but not clean when called >> programmatically. > Programmatically, you should call delete-region anyway. Indeed, I've just added delete-backward-char to byte-compile-interactive-only-functions. Stefan