From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I want to make C-d works in two ways. Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:38:00 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <55f24183-4134-4748-b9d1-b3864afd39b2@x24g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <8739v8m4hd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87oc5jdfbf.fsf@wivenhoe.ul.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299721234 7612 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2011 01:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:40:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 02:40:30 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1PxUre-0006Wv-Gt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:40:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42045 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxUre-00036K-0f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:40:30 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed3.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1299721043 31055 85.183.18.158 (10 Mar 2011 01:37:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:37:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185781 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79931 Archived-At: brendan.halpin@ul.ie (Brendan Halpin) writes: > On Sun, Jul 25 2010, David Kastrup wrote: > >> delete-active-region is a variable defined in `simple.el'. >> Its value is t >> >> Documentation: >> Whether single-char deletion commands delete an active region. >> This has an effect only if Transient Mark mode is enabled, and >> affects `delete-forward-char' and `delete-backward-char', though >> not `delete-char'. >> >> If the value is the symbol `kill', the active region is killed >> instead of deleted. > > I've just discovered this and I hate it! > > I reckon I'll just have to (setq delete-active-region nil) and > live with being marginalised by all the new kids who want > Emacs to be more like Windows. > It makes far more sense for the same commands to work on a region as they do on a char "out of the box" in my opinion. Regardless of whether you use Windows or not. If I hilite a region its to operate on it. And delete is an operation. Still, the wonders of emacs customisations mean that old curmudgeons can have their way too ;)