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 10:47:18 -0600 Message-ID: <4C94ED16.8010100@gmail.com> References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83lj6zz9o0.fsf@gnu.org> 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 1284828454 6157 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 16:47:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:47:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 18:47:31 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 1Ox0ZW-0005is-Iu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:47:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51430 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox0ZW-0001fb-2t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:47:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47074 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox0ZQ-0001fI-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:47:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox0ZP-0008Tx-Sw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:47:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:41311) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox0ZP-0008Th-GS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:47:23 -0400 Original-Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so4701705iwn.0 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:47:22 -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:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SVF0VPIBIv8a83J90a9f2Wtw+eM3V3upTHhlQ1f6vBI=; b=Zp/IGAjnOQj1FLT0bvsI2gyNUeABRP8HUWqzknpPNwMQt8BGPrm3ZKopDov4K6gXVv 9sQrR2lf1N49cHLu+oMiciOP4aZ94bi0RsDupoC7aZEjMZBZxGySIZrRC9r9mQ1eCRbb LynqFf0M2jk1fZNLFhb9kOBZdcw8fhxatTItk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bLV2C9grISuRID2YP3RuHwXsyktE7k7q97HJNqs7czfz1DQdUOqfWAXmVWdpwN82VX I8R1rMSQfTS17uHTSEcBrtXqOhfnHXdD14r+KNDa58ykGOQG4ffN2zy2s3oYaXNl8xAK MrYQke+cz3o8G2u7HX2Y+IxQH32mHbL9jyDiA= Original-Received: by 10.231.30.68 with SMTP id t4mr7121440ibc.129.1284828442297; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:47:22 -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 n20sm5135203ibe.23.2010.09.18.09.47.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:47:21 -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: 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:130429 Archived-At: On 9/18/2010 9:05 AM, Drew Adams wrote: > No. Both and C-d, whether mapped together or not, should do what they > have always done in Emacs: delete the next char. Whether the region is active or > not. As for C-d and its command delete-forward-char, the documentation states: To disable this, set `delete-active-region' to nil. Imho, the default behavior is more consistent than the old behavior. C-d without an active region deletes the character, with an active region deletes the region. Makes sense to me. Christoph