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 15:55:06 +0200 Message-ID: <87y6axyh1h.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4C94E03D.8090002@gmail.com> <87fwx699pc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4C951FCC.1@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284904526 20925 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2010 13:55:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:55:26 +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 15:55:24 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 1OxKMV-0003c3-Ff for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:55:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54543 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxKMV-0001jZ-3k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:55:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52210 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxKMP-0001iE-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:55:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxKMO-0006ZM-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:55:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:38887 helo=mail.gmx.net) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxKMN-0006YQ-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Sep 2010 13:55:12 -0000 Original-Received: from df01ppp066.eplus-online.de (EHLO beteigeuze.gmx.de) [212.23.104.66] by mail.gmx.net (mp064) with SMTP; 19 Sep 2010 15:55:12 +0200 X-Authenticated: #8529601 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+4Nv1CH+O44iz5BevkS1U/GkEkxr5NIS2qY9K8Gn BWNbceBBzgb7IY In-Reply-To: <4C951FCC.1@gmail.com> (Christoph's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:23:40 -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:130483 Archived-At: Christoph writes: > I usually activate the region to perform some kind of a command on it. If I > decide that I need to delete the character under the cursor instead of deleting > to entire region, is it too strange to hit C-g first, to deactivate the region > and then press C-d to delete the character? That seems like a pretty normal > workflow to me. C-g is a superfluous extra keystroke in this case. It will be (is) typed billions of times just because of a wrong decision. Sebastian