From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christoph Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:52:29 -0600 Message-ID: <4C94E03D.8090002@gmail.com> References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284825167 25462 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 15:52:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:52:47 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 17:52:45 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 1OwziT-0006Ny-2o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:52:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59888 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwziS-0003Hs-AI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:52:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44910 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwziN-0003Gg-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:52:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwziL-0008EO-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:49983) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwziL-0008E7-TD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so4650910iwn.0 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:52:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eJM2IZ6f0p6YwaA9zAk1h33cpWCL3X15y+0tOtq5CfE=; b=v93GU1wAH9f2SYXnPwiIacdH6EeUAXp77+4TkmY+nrtz5f4p2l/GG4nPGWEMbR/HNW asIaNnva0zGLIlDnGH9hrYtVpBjI69IN7YrPMnbOwck3VFgnuHhbusetauOQk8JVYgCU uCqmL072eYtroBlDRCSLnLpn0Y/MzPXH0EtgY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=U0jxD/AlsPjB4XLZiqujbcAX2j6BberBrr1XXp/MUjOgph+a4oYQfqLPFBf0dlfZ6W ui47bd5JvhreP2aTvxhYDsjhSxAaRxXvx+ykyihBUwPvLkGghElnFoMSMlKDRqBo9/pO AHIO0i3cK8nn0lXK2uURR7N3BP3MhYds0AASo= Original-Received: by 10.231.146.135 with SMTP id h7mr7130241ibv.149.1284825152655; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:52:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.4] (97-122-97-123.hlrn.qwest.net [97.122.97.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h8sm5083215ibk.9.2010.09.18.08.52.31 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:52:32 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100825 Thunderbird/3.1.3 In-Reply-To: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:130419 Archived-At: On 9/17/2010 7:49 PM, Miles Bader wrote: > However, the effect of "C-d" deleting the active region has been > driving me nuts for quite a while. I am trying to understand the real problem here. I personally think the new behavior is more intuitive, but anyway. If you mark an active region, why exactly do you press C-d? Wouldn't you expect the command after selecting the active region to be executed on the active region? Christoph