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> Type some text and mark it by temporarily activating
> transient-mark-mode (C-SPC C-SPC). Press C-d (delete-char). This does
> nothing to the text, which was expected (at least for a long-time
> Emacs-user... :)
>
> Now type some more text and this time mark the text using the
> mouse. Now press C-d again. Voila! Text deleted!
>
> What is this magic? Some "stuff" in the text properties, or what?

Could this be it?

mouse-region-delete-keys's value is
([delete]
 [deletechar])


List of keys which shall cause the mouse region to be deleted.

Defined in `mouse'.