From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:05:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284858324 11866 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2010 01:05:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 19 03:05:22 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 1Ox8LI-00029v-HE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:05:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41485 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox8LI-0002js-2F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:05:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56507 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox8LC-0002jV-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox8LB-0004iF-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:05:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:50748) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox8LB-0004i8-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:05:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox8LA-0002W2-SZ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:05:12 -0400 In-reply-to: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:49:19 +0900) 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:130466 Archived-At: I notice that various deletion commands will now delete an active region. The most obviously useful to newbies is DEL (aka backspace), as that's what other platforms use, and I don't have any problems with that (and I might even use it occasionally) Did people go ahead with that change? Such a change should not be made without polling the users first. I tried it for a few days and found it rather painful.