From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:15:35 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83lj6zz9o0.fsf@gnu.org><87fwx78jwq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <83fwx7z7qn.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284822988 17486 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 15:16:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:16:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" , "'David Kastrup'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 17:16:26 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 1Owz9O-0005Ih-0j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:16:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41283 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Owz9N-0005NE-Eu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:16:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44978 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Owz9H-0005N2-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:16:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Owz9G-0003gp-FR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:16:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:38050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Owz9G-0003gf-99; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:16:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o8IFGGuo027004 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:16:17 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o8IFGEEw011266; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:16:16 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt001.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 609775131284822888; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:14:48 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.218.112) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:14:47 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: ActXGSLPzb+3cT+tQSOBVV0fWRmjVgAKqVPQ In-Reply-To: <83fwx7z7qn.fsf@gnu.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:130415 Archived-At: > > > Deleting an active region with Backspace is a bad idea, > > > IMO: that's not how other apps behave, while this feature > > > exists to be compatible with other apps. > > > > Just tried it in the location bar of firefox. Backspace > > certainly does delete an active region there. > > Firefox does a lot of things that others don't. And IE and Outlook and Word and Windows Explorer and... Hitting Backspace in most apps on Windows deletes the selection.