From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why is C-d not bound to `delete-forward-char'?
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:06:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twzqz2xi.fsf@red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd26ei9ei.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:39:17 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Does anyone know why C-d is bound to `delete-char' instead of
>> 'delete-forward-char'?
>
>Yes: because when delete-active-region was enabled by default, we
>decided that C-d shouldn't delete the active region, so as to reduce the
>pain of adaptation for old-timers.
Thank you.
Would you like me to document that in the doc string for C-d, or would it be too distracting there?
(I think the doc string is a bit confusing in its current form, but maybe that's the lesser price here; not sure.)
-K
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2015-01-16 22:17 Why is C-d not bound to `delete-forward-char'? Karl Fogel
2015-01-16 23:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-17 0:06 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
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