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 11:44:01 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4C94E03D.8090002@gmail.com> 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 1284835608 1633 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 18:46:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:46:48 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Christoph'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 20:46:47 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 1Ox2Qw-0003o8-MN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:46:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40353 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox2Qw-0008QM-5A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54460 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox2PM-0007KU-31 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox2PL-0002Ny-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:19145) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox2PK-0002Nt-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com (rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o8IIj4OV021640 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:45:06 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by rcsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o8IIUmh4026473; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:45:04 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt002.oracle.com by acsmt353.oracle.com with ESMTP id 616011931284835394; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:43:14 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.218.112) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:43:14 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: ActXSYcKgN8IjCWJSr6OEPAQQos99wAEv5cw In-Reply-To: <4C94E03D.8090002@gmail.com> 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:130435 Archived-At: > > However, the effect of "C-d" deleting the active region has been > > driving me nuts for quite a while. > > I am trying to understand the real problem here... > If you mark an active region, why exactly do you press C-d? To delete a char, the char after point. > Wouldn't you expect the command after selecting the active > region to be executed on the active region? No, I would expect to act as it always has, on the char after point.