From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:47:18 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4C94E03D.8090002@gmail.com> <87fwx699pc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284835682 1947 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 18:48:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:48:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 20:48:01 2010 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 1Ox2Rw-0004JC-3p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:48:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41018 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox2Rp-0000X9-Ch for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:47:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55232 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox2Rh-0000W3-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox2Rd-0003B7-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:47:33 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:56517) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox2Rc-00039q-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:47:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox2RZ-00048O-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:47:25 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no ([84.215.34.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:47:25 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:47:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEUzGBd3OiNfMB+BRCiK UzCMbkK+s4pcbVUqAAACY0lEQVQ4jU3UwZKjIBAA0JaYOQdx5owEc1bAPRvFPWejcJ+pgf//hG2i MemqVIwv3SDQQkxRabvFOGqtaUsLeAAzdg+z2gZaM6Yp0y3VlNKW6S2DDmKPCj/s/Cyl3mqlOG+l jDpB7Zy7gbgQAJ7LDVzfALkmqG8NGH44tA8IrGkIqTsECICR5XqFSp0IpZ2br5PDUnDYIJqhATHg IG5aLICSL+iBFOWypBldAXJpnrMaAKe12LFMhGBX0KqHg1+sAiDG+h2CVprnwY6Qc8imeHuDFsBZ dfQ+uBh/3qDBMWbuH4Vj2MGonkA5irQIPvr4BraHDgFL3eEdrl0P0n7G6MNcH1+lbKsGIkccwoXg eChfg6vmIKd06cICF/uCYQCCE42/f/FnbZ7A1MCBjHg546xiPcnxCQp32sWAz7d45xYE51Yw0+Tj /RgGLLc4LJU2wWEp3I0YeG7T/5wrxxW0sqJzcYDjgg8eFis3oGqoav8teB0+gnfXstyhF9LdRfb1 62/eUVnqBywUz9VpPlXV5eb4nyX7fEFDiqFg1ZE7fnHZJ3tCMQiqBMuOlzscp8q+APej4gpU7RCo Ye0DZiyVgWhFF3xs8u5HyjVjTksC8FngOuEpnfrnrOaqaQvOJS5HOrrilD8z6Empipg6RrxPyO1w 3qG5iuKCCTyJegcq+AeeqNQERJoN/jGcbp2Ox5AyQOxwxkP9hXf88MgQcoN7gorD4RtS23Aitwe8 02LRrNUd9oc2LbO23KAqRux+s/U0vj/kDmvv40uEFuvVCoLqNTAnfSGvgC2r34LuQHGENfDFtNJ/ r8n/HDAzPxkAAAAASUVORK5CYII= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Joni Mitchell's _Taming the Tiger_: "Man From Mars" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rn7fHzj9mUlCTMUkZlDasNhdmCo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:130436 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > As I mentioned, DEL/backspace theoretically suffer the same issue, but > don't seem to be a problem for me in practice; maybe that's because > I've also become used to the "extra functionality" in that case due to > using mac/windows software. The "DEL deleting the region" behaviour was something that was driving me insane. I usually jump around a lot with `C-x C-x' in buffers, and then I may want to delete something, and I use `DEL' to delete stuff with. So I just switched off `transient-mark-mode', which is something I suspect most Emacs old-timers will be more comfortable with. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen