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: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:23:45 -0600 Message-ID: <4C961CF1.9080607@gmail.com> References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83lj6zz9o0.fsf@gnu.org> <87fwx78jwq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <83fwx7z7qn.fsf@gnu.org> <83d3sbz7b8.fsf@gnu.org> <871v8rdzug.fsf@gmx.de> <4C94E566.7020701@gmail.com> <83y6azxbuv.fsf@gnu.org> <4C94E7F4.6080101@gmail.com> <87sk16dekw.fsf@gmx.de> <4C9516D2.2050609@gmail.com> <87tyllyg0e.fsf@gmx.de> 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 1284906243 27620 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2010 14:24:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:24:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sebastian Rose Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 19 16:24:01 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 1OxKoD-0003SY-Hq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:24:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43467 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxKoC-0001jQ-Ll for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:24:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60476 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxKo4-0001iN-5A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxKo3-0002o4-60 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:23:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:42161) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxKo3-0002nt-0d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:23:51 -0400 Original-Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so5653830iwn.0 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:23:50 -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=5PC7HaCVNQsHoZ5ibXk24U6u+daa09qoLniQnN32FQo=; b=Kxvul+pLriiKomjKRdyv13yn4mtqklQF0Grhv7+EbM35Kui6NzmJecQ+E26jTTi2sb S3iBjjOfLH5gFhboB1m3ArBzCd9YOANekQINQRUqOr1aFO45Ri14F7TP8xmjSKre1wAt lVg3t31S/afzG6xOgMPuRfwg/Bx/QnWG7OaCY= 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=mODMUvqXKFxXr9dP6c1NPKpEb12hQ+ErjCxd8vsqAVyUJVYYIeX380vBozBvEftNsa Pwjax4H+6kFZTmcdcv12ssd1CyYiUrctd/2fUOFzllNLrWS9KRzB+Bx+Kt3otz9cY47A U1v+br/uxyTOkeNsEju94Td1TLrzxweciqG/E= Original-Received: by 10.231.58.201 with SMTP id i9mr8505000ibh.98.1284906230234; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (97-122-97-123.hlrn.qwest.net [97.122.97.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g31sm6282231ibh.22.2010.09.19.07.23.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:23:49 -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: <87tyllyg0e.fsf@gmx.de> 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:130490 Archived-At: On 9/19/2010 8:17 AM, Sebastian Rose wrote: >>> You could (re-)bind keys to make something "simple" like deleting a >>> whole bunch of text for good the default for you. >> >> Why wouldn't something simple like that be available with a simple key >> combination out of the box? > > It is. `C-w' Changes my kill-ring, no? > It was stated in one of the mails before, that "oldtimers" could re-bind > keys to keep them doing, in this case, the sensible thing. The subject > of this thread is just one out of several discussions and changes that > came up this year. OK, understood. Thanks. Christoph