From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:53:36 -0700 Message-ID: <0CC94A22C4BC49648EEF78C1E8A6297B@us.oracle.com> References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87iq23vjg0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284821677 12363 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 14:54:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:54:37 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Miles Bader'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 16:54:36 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 1OwyoF-0003RS-FM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:54:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42782 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwyoE-0006bb-TF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:54:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32965 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwynJ-00069L-Gj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwynI-000842-It for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:53:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:49883) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwynG-00083F-PK; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:53:35 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o8IErWe8006950 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:53:34 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o8IDQ5X7011068; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:53:32 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt015.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 615652461284821569; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:52:49 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.218.112) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:52:48 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: ActW63bDA27PaTtIRpu18pN0B8Ck2gAVWv1g In-Reply-To: <87iq23vjg0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 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:130408 Archived-At: > BTW, I realize that DEL/backspace might theoretically have the same > problem, but it's also a clearly more useful binding, and for whatever > reason doesn't seem to be problematic in practice for me. Yes, and DEL/backspace has always deleted the active region in delete-selection mode.