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: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:17:21 +0200 Message-ID: <87tyllyg0e.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> <87sk16dekw.fsf@gmx.de> <4C9516D2.2050609@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284905857 26259 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2010 14:17:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:17:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christoph Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 19 16:17:36 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 1OxKhy-0008Ca-SF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:17:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40172 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxKhy-0008Aa-7U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:17:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46311 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxKhs-0008AV-Qf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxKhr-0001oJ-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:17:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:42190 helo=mail.gmx.net) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxKhr-0001oC-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Sep 2010 14:17:25 -0000 Original-Received: from df01ppp066.eplus-online.de (EHLO beteigeuze.gmx.de) [212.23.104.66] by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 19 Sep 2010 16:17:25 +0200 X-Authenticated: #8529601 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19w7V8cmH1w8TilkwzPdPMCSboDf3R4MyzcHJO+Oo YrZnbIcezEb/Ci In-Reply-To: <4C9516D2.2050609@gmail.com> (Christoph's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:45:22 -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:130487 Archived-At: Christoph writes: > On 9/18/2010 1:41 PM, Sebastian Rose wrote: > >> You could (re-)bind keys to make something "simple" like deleting a >> whole bunch of text for good the default for you. > > Why wouldn't something simple like that be available with a simple key > combination out of the box? It is. `C-w' >> The current situation is, we have to rebind more and more keys to do >> something reasonable in many, many cases. That's worse. > > I don't understand what you mean. It was stated in one of the mails before, that "oldtimers" could re-bind keys to keep them doing, in this case, the sensible thing. The subject of this thread is just one out of several discussions and changes that came up this year. Sebastian