From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: good key binding for delete-region Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:58:32 +0200 Message-ID: <87sjcuj0br.fsf@zigzag.favinet> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342249142 31076 80.91.229.3 (14 Jul 2012 06:59:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 06:59:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Jai Dayal Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 14 08:59:01 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SpwJg-0000rW-Eh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:59:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SpwJf-00080m-Q1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59077) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SpwJX-0007qn-Pk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:58:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SpwJW-0001BL-LD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:58:51 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp205.alice.it ([82.57.200.101]:54415) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SpwJW-00019y-Dw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:58:50 -0400 Original-Received: from zigzag.favinet (79.24.205.189) by smtp205.alice.it (8.6.023.02) id 4FFCD577009477D1; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:58:28 +0200 Original-Received: from ttn by zigzag.favinet with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SpwJF-0003bP-DX; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:58:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Jai Dayal's message of "Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:28:21 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.101 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85851 Archived-At: () Jai Dayal () Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:28:21 -0600 having trouble finding a good keybinding for delete-region. Any suggestions? Personallly, i globally bind =E2=80=98M-+=E2=80=99 to it. I think there wa= s some coy euphoric (RIP HST ;-D) reason for that particular choice at the time (ca. 1996), but certainly it wasn't the cognac... For other suggestions, some mundane, some not, see also: http://www.gnuvola.org/software/personal-elisp/dist/lisp/core/keys.el