From: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
To: Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:41:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sk16dekw.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C94E7F4.6080101@gmail.com> (Christoph's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:25:24 -0600")
Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com> writes:
> On 9/18/2010 10:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> Btw, in 23.2 (on Windows), how do I delete (not kill) an active region?
>>
>> "M-x delete-region RET".
>
> Hmm, that's quite the effort required for a simple thing like that. I like C-d a
> lot better. ;)
Until you delete a big bunch of text by accident.
You could (re-)bind keys to make something "simple" like deleting a
whole bunch of text for good the default for you.
The current situation is, we have to rebind more and more keys to do
something reasonable in many, many cases. That's worse.
Sebastian
PS: You'll find more information about the `kill-ring', `kill-ring-max',
`browse-kill-ring' and other usefull Emacs tools in the Emacs manual.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-18 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 133+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-18 1:49 C-d deleting region considered harmful Miles Bader
2010-09-18 3:06 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 14:53 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 8:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-18 15:00 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 19:22 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-20 16:11 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-18 9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 9:45 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-18 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 10:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 12:02 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-18 15:26 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 16:14 ` Christoph
2010-09-18 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 16:25 ` Christoph
2010-09-18 19:41 ` Sebastian Rose [this message]
2010-09-18 19:45 ` Christoph
2010-09-19 14:17 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-19 14:23 ` Christoph
2010-09-19 14:46 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-19 21:02 ` Christoph
2010-09-19 21:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-19 23:26 ` Christoph
2010-09-20 6:52 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-19 21:39 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-19 23:39 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-09-19 23:46 ` Christoph
2010-09-18 15:15 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 14:21 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 15:05 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-18 18:44 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 18:53 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 19:11 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-20 0:16 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-20 0:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-20 3:10 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-20 11:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-20 7:56 ` Bastien
2010-09-20 10:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-20 11:21 ` Bastien
2010-09-20 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-20 12:07 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-20 12:35 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-09-20 12:37 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-20 12:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-20 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-22 0:56 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-22 5:11 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-23 0:58 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-20 1:24 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-21 0:56 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-21 1:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-21 7:51 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-21 8:19 ` PJ Weisberg
2010-09-21 1:30 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-21 1:47 ` Leo
2010-09-21 2:42 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 16:47 ` Christoph
2010-09-18 18:44 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 18:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-18 19:13 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 19:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-18 19:39 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-19 6:31 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-19 11:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 11:23 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-18 20:42 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-18 20:22 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-18 14:29 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 15:07 ` Bastien
2010-09-18 15:52 ` Christoph
2010-09-18 18:40 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 18:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-18 19:09 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 21:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-19 14:00 ` Christoph
2010-09-19 14:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 18:00 ` Chad Brown
2010-09-19 18:21 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-19 18:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 20:06 ` Should C-x C-x activate the region? [was: C-d deleting region considered harmful] Drew Adams
2010-09-19 20:37 ` David Reitter
2010-09-21 0:55 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-20 1:21 ` C-d deleting region considered harmful Miles Bader
2010-09-20 6:59 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-20 13:43 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-20 16:02 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-20 7:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-20 7:20 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-20 16:34 ` Chad Brown
2010-09-20 22:09 ` C-x C-x (was: C-d deleting region considered harmful) Stefan Monnier
2010-09-20 22:46 ` Chad Brown
2010-09-21 0:17 ` C-x C-x Chong Yidong
2010-09-21 20:52 ` Johan Bockgård
2010-09-21 0:28 ` C-x C-x (was: C-d deleting region considered harmful) Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-09-21 1:06 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-09-21 7:49 ` C-x C-x David Kastrup
2010-09-21 9:22 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-09-21 9:40 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-24 23:59 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-09-21 7:25 ` C-x C-x (was: C-d deleting region considered harmful) Thierry Volpiatto
2010-09-21 1:03 ` C-d deleting region considered harmful Miles Bader
2010-09-21 19:12 ` Chad Brown
2010-09-19 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-19 19:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-09-19 21:27 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-19 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-19 21:11 ` Christoph
2010-09-21 6:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-21 8:04 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-21 8:23 ` Leo
2010-09-21 8:52 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-09-21 9:20 ` Leo
2010-09-21 9:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-18 20:23 ` Christoph
2010-09-19 6:28 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-19 12:40 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-19 13:38 ` Christoph
2010-09-19 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-19 19:18 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-19 19:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-22 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-19 13:55 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-19 14:23 ` Christoph
2010-09-18 18:44 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-19 1:05 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-18 11:55 dhruva
2010-09-18 14:22 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 15:18 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 17:48 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-18 19:24 ` Drew Adams
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