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: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:56:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83lj6zz9o0.fsf@gnu.org> <87r5gp5hqv.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 1285030582 27088 80.91.229.12 (21 Sep 2010 00:56:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:56:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 21 02:56:21 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 1Oxr9h-0001pp-DT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:56:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37836 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oxr9h-0002NQ-0A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:56:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46367 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oxr9X-0002LH-3W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:56:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxr9V-0003YX-Un for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:56:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:54268) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxr9V-0003YT-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:56:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxr9V-0001iM-CO; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:56:09 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r5gp5hqv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:24:56 +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:130552 Archived-At: > It won't bother anyone for `delete' to delete the region. Making > `backspace' do so is the change that will bother lots of users. But it's also the only such change that really matters for newbie-friendless. I am not convinced it does. The case in which newbies would expect Backspace to delete the region is after mouse-selecting it, and it already does delete the region in that case.