From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Updated proposal for DEL to delete active region
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 19:10:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ocg6pmqn.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ljbby08e.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 22 May 2010 19:40:01 -0400")
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
> 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.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-23 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-22 17:44 Updated proposal for DEL to delete active region Chong Yidong
2010-05-22 18:37 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-22 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-22 20:43 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-22 21:39 ` David Kastrup
2010-05-22 22:14 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-22 21:37 ` David Kastrup
2010-05-22 23:40 ` Chong Yidong
2010-05-23 0:30 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-23 17:10 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2010-05-24 21:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-23 1:33 ` Stefan Monnier
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