From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for DEL to delete the active region
Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 22:54:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhbmruine.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iq78uwyd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:23:22 -0400")
> Here is a proposal for DEL to delete the region when transient-mark-mode
> is enabled. DEL already does this in delete-selection-mode; the idea
> here is to move this behavior into transient-mark-mode proper.
The proposal has the property of being straightforward. I like that.
> + (defcustom delete-backward-char-delete-region t
But this doesn't seem right: we're not going to have one such variable
for delete-backward-char, delete-char, delete-backward-char-untabify,
and the handful of other commands that
grep "'delete-selection 'supersede" lisp/**/*.el
indicate will want a similar treatment.
> + (defun delete-backward-char (n killflag)
[...]
> + (interactive "p\nP")
> + (unless (integerp n)
> + (signal 'wrong-type-argument (list 'integerp n)))
> + (cond ((and (use-region-p)
> + delete-backward-char-delete-region
> + (= n 1))
the other problem here is that this change also affects calls from Lisp
rather than only interactive calls.
Stefan
PS: We will want to remove mouse-region-delete-keys and related code
ASAP since it is at the root of various known bugs (mostly due to the
fact that it delays the end of the mouse-selection commands to the
beginning of the next command, so post-command-hooks don't get run at
the expected time).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-02 2:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-01 3:23 Proposal for DEL to delete the active region Chong Yidong
2010-05-02 2:54 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-05-02 6:04 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-05-02 14:34 ` Chong Yidong
2010-05-03 6:00 ` Richard Stallman
2010-05-03 17:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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