From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:48:26 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <8739t77xjp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284832822 23263 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 18:00:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:00:22 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 20:00:21 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 1Ox1hx-0006cf-Os for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:00:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox1hx-000464-9e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:00:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50621 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox1hF-00036J-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox1Wi-00021B-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:48:41 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55230) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox1Wh-00020m-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:48:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox1Wc-0001aH-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:48:34 +0200 Original-Received: from p508edaf8.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.218.248]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:48:34 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508edaf8.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:48:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508edaf8.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dvNKMGyzuC0U04Jrws2CHY5z6eI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:130431 Archived-At: dhruva writes: > For deleting a a portion of text, I always use the shift->Arrow > selection to mark it and hit backspace to > delete the region. Since shift->arrow key does not work when I use > "emacs -nw" mode, I struggle. To > summarize, I heavily depend on ability to delete regions using the > backspace. I just hope it does not change. It may be a relic of being > a windows user but old habits die hard! If the region has been selected moving backwards, it would appear natural to have DEL/C-d delete the region. It is probably too clever to let DEL/C-d/Backspace not delete the active region only if it "faces the other way". Though it would likely cure Miles' problem. -- David Kastrup