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 21:41:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87sk16dekw.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> <871v8rdzug.fsf@gmx.de> <4C94E566.7020701@gmail.com> <83y6azxbuv.fsf@gnu.org> <4C94E7F4.6080101@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284838917 14094 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 19:41:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:41:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christoph Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 21:41:55 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 1Ox3IJ-0002d5-4j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:41:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox3II-00012M-K6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:41:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50695 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox3I9-00011c-Vr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox3I8-0003jC-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:41:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:42049 helo=mail.gmx.net) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox3I8-0003io-BT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 Sep 2010 19:41:41 -0000 Original-Received: from df01ppp166.eplus-online.de (EHLO beteigeuze.gmx.de) [212.23.104.166] by mail.gmx.net (mp069) with SMTP; 18 Sep 2010 21:41:41 +0200 X-Authenticated: #8529601 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18tBZ0KGJotgdo1uxMJzHUuDuBEVCdoV3Vmcm6zvJ zlgZ71iNctKs0a In-Reply-To: <4C94E7F4.6080101@gmail.com> (Christoph's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:25:24 -0600") 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:130447 Archived-At: Christoph 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.