Re: Make <delete> save the deleted text into the killing ring

[Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>]

On 15/12/2022 10:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:31:43 +0100
>> From: aitor <aitors2005@gmail.com>
>>
>>> Any reason why you think you need that?  Doing so will fill the
>>> kill-ring with meaningless single-character entries.  You have 'undo',
>>> which can undelete the deleted text, so why do you want to put every
>>> single character you delete in the kill-ring?
>> I usually select portions of text using shift+arrow keys, and then
>> delete them by pressing <delete>.
> Then press "C-u <delete>" instead.  That will allow you to control
> when the deleted text goes to the kill-ring and when not.  Doing that
> by default makes little sense, because <delete> is also used to delete
> single characters or very short stretches of text.

One could also have a delete function which saves to the kill ring only 
when the region is active. This should keep most short deletions out.