From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Rose Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:02:15 +0200 Message-ID: <871v8rdzug.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83lj6zz9o0.fsf@gnu.org> <87fwx78jwq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <83fwx7z7qn.fsf@gnu.org> <83d3sbz7b8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284811357 6440 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 12:02:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:02:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 14:02:35 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 1Oww7k-0004oy-OX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:02:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38422 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oww7k-0001vq-9w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:02:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55982 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oww7f-0001vl-J9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:02:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oww7c-00067n-2x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:02:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:37905 helo=mail.gmx.net) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oww7b-00067R-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:02:24 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 Sep 2010 12:02:21 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (EHLO beteigeuze.gmx.de) [46.114.39.225] by mail.gmx.net (mp017) with SMTP; 18 Sep 2010 14:02:21 +0200 X-Authenticated: #8529601 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/KCOg7UBzKoCzR5E4aiQ2WwAysvo0hn70GU3Daff 3tR2Ei0xRBXeUp In-Reply-To: <83d3sbz7b8.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:15:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:130396 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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. This change has removed a reaonable distinction between deleting a character (C-d) and deleting a region (C-w) which was a good thing. Yet another bad change.