From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:15:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87litcvtu2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317928531 6805 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2011 19:15:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:15:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 06 21:15:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBtPj-0005Zi-Ci for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:15:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44917 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBtPi-0000FM-Uf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:15:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56263) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBtPd-0000Eu-MQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBtPc-00042A-N1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:15:21 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:34146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBtPc-000425-Hv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:15:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBtPa-0005Xp-4x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:15:18 +0200 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:15:18 +0200 Original-Received: from kgold by yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:15:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:82490 Archived-At: When I want to delete a large region, I typically use a mouse drag. When I don't, I'm used to kill-region, which I bind to mouse-3 a la Unix practice. So: - I'm slightly opposed to the change. - I don't feel strongly about it. - Experience? I've been using emacs since before you were born (i.e., a long time) On 9/29/2011 11:42 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > In Emacs 24, now in pretest, a change is being considered for ASCII > DEL (on most keyboards, the Backspace key) and the Delete function > key. The change affects the case of an active region that was not > dragged with the mouse. The change is that these commands would > delete the region, rather than just one character as now.