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 11:24:31 +0200 Message-ID: <83lj6zz9o0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284801879 6815 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 09:24:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:24:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 11:24:38 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 1Owtev-0005fU-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:24:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58605 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Owteu-0000ao-F9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:24:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51411 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Owtel-0000aj-OJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:24:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Owtek-00086V-LY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:24:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:40113) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Owtek-00086N-Ew; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:24:26 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L8X00I00RD9XS00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:24:25 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.210.149]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L8X00IK0RGOU820@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:24:25 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> 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:130384 Archived-At: > From: Miles Bader > Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:49:19 +0900 > > I propose removing this functionality from C-d. If mac/windows users > want to delete a region, they can use DEL (backspace). There's no DEL key on Windows, only , which is remapped to C-d. Maybe the command should distinguish whether it was run by C-d or , and behave differently wrt the active region. 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.