From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:34:05 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284798864 29323 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 08:34:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 10:34:22 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 1OwssH-0006Xv-Gi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:34:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46273 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwssG-0000Cl-Fv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:34:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48974 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Owss7-0000Ax-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Owss6-0000hm-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:34:11 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:55033) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Owss5-0000hT-3o; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:34:09 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (vpn-132-204-232-22.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.22]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o8I8Y67M029724; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:34:07 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 319BB6623B; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:34:05 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:49:19 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3625=0 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:130380 Archived-At: > Is there any particular _reason_ for C-d to have this effect? C-d is I don't know what was Chong's motivation for it, but one reason i that the `delete' key is often remapped to C-d. Stefan