From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:15:23 +0200 Message-ID: <83d3sbz7b8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83lj6zz9o0.fsf@gnu.org> <87fwx78jwq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <83fwx7z7qn.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284805874 19996 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 10:31:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:31:14 +0000 (UTC) To: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 12:31:12 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 1OwuhL-00042N-8b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:31:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43446 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwuhJ-0000zH-JE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:31:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35318 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Owuh1-0000rK-DE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:30:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwuS3-0006zd-I9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:15:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:46270) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwuS1-0006z9-O1; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:15:21 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L8X00200TSY5E00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:15:20 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.210.149]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L8X002LXTTH4B10@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:15:20 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <83fwx7z7qn.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:130389 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:06:08 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > From: David Kastrup > > Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:45:25 +0200 > > > > > Deleting an active region with Backspace is a bad idea, IMO: that's > > > not how other apps behave, while this feature exists to be compatible > > > with other apps. > > > > Just tried it in the location bar of firefox. Backspace certainly does > > delete an active region there. > > Firefox does a lot of things that others don't. And in any case, hitting is a customary op, so removing it is not a good idea. P.S. Note that I don't use active regions at all, so my personal habits will not be affected either way.