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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Proposal for DEL to delete the active region
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 02:00:59 -0400
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If you are thinking of making DEL delete the region
whenever it is active, please implement it as an
optional mode first.  Then people can try it
and report whether it is a real pain.  Currently we
can only guess how much of a pain it would be.