From: "Stefan Reichör" <stefan@xsteve.at>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: draft for DEL key poll
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:30:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m0pqim7b0j.fsf@ge-research.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877h4vync0.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm
no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> writes:
>
>> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>>>I'm planning the poll about DEL. Here is a draft for comments. (I
>>>will also write a poll about completion.)
>>>
>>>In Emacs 24, now in pretest, a change is being considered for DEL
>>>(often the Backspace key) and the Delete function key. When there is
>>>an active region, they would delete the region instead of just one
>>>character. This is enabled by default in the current pretest, so
>>>building and using the pretest is a way to test it.
>
>>
>> It would be great to have some elisp I could evaluate to test this
>> change before I vote in a poll about it.
>
> Actually, if you use cua-mode, DEL and BS have always behaved like this!
> Maybe this fact should be mentioned in the poll, so users of cua-mode
> are not confused when trying to determine what's changed (since nothing
> changed).
>
> I guess cua-mode need some testing under 24.1 in this respect
> (in particular, cua-mode saves the deleted text in register "0",
> which I strongly prefer to messing with the kill-ring).
When using cua rectangle mode (start with C-RET), DEL does not delete the selection.
It just deletes one character and disables the selection.
This is often annoying. Is this a bug or a design feature?
I consider it a bug.
Stefan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-27 6:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-26 3:57 Emacs pretest 24.0.90 Chong Yidong
2011-09-26 4:46 ` Leo
2011-09-26 18:43 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-26 23:21 ` Leo
2011-09-26 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 8:23 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-26 23:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-26 11:12 ` Neal Becker
2011-09-26 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 4:50 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-10-13 8:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 16:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 17:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 18:50 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-26 17:07 ` Bastien
2011-09-26 17:26 ` Rasmus
2011-09-26 21:12 ` draft for DEL key poll Richard Stallman
2011-09-26 21:38 ` Karl Fogel
2011-09-26 22:02 ` Kim F. Storm
2011-09-27 6:30 ` Stefan Reichör [this message]
2011-09-27 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-28 22:48 ` Kim F. Storm
2011-09-29 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-30 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-27 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-26 22:38 ` disable delete-selection-mode? (was: Re: draft for DEL key poll) chad
2011-09-26 23:10 ` disable delete-selection-mode? Glenn Morris
2011-09-27 16:34 ` disable delete-selection-mode? (was: Re: draft for DEL key poll) Richard Stallman
2011-09-27 0:08 ` draft for DEL key poll Juri Linkov
2011-09-27 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-27 0:52 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-27 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-27 18:49 ` James Cloos
2011-09-28 7:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-28 8:26 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-09-28 9:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-28 17:44 ` chad
2011-09-29 10:49 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-29 17:56 ` chad
2011-09-29 23:17 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2011-09-30 0:04 ` chad
2011-09-30 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-30 21:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-01 6:03 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-09-27 0:59 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-27 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-26 23:00 ` Emacs pretest 24.0.90 Ota, Takaaki
2011-09-26 23:58 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-27 0:30 ` Ota, Takaaki
2011-10-01 0:22 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-03 16:11 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-03 22:56 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-03 23:42 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-03 23:43 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-12 10:18 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-12 10:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 11:28 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-12 11:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-12 12:07 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-12 12:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-12 12:27 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-12 12:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-12 12:31 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-12 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 19:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-12 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-12 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 12:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 12:52 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-12 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 14:21 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-12 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 11:27 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-12 13:48 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-12 14:02 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-13 1:54 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-13 3:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-13 4:04 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-13 16:15 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-13 22:54 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-15 1:32 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-13 14:17 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-18 17:15 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-18 23:34 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-18 23:55 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-13 14:28 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-13 14:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-07 19:25 ` nabil-82
2011-10-08 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-08 16:38 ` nabil-82
2011-10-09 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-09 13:02 ` nabil-82
2011-10-09 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 1:39 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-10-12 13:04 ` nabil-82
2011-10-12 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 16:58 ` nabil-82
2011-10-13 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-08 21:01 ` Glenn Morris
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