Re: Updated proposal for DEL to delete active region

[Stefan Monnier]

>> This is not entirely academic.  For instance, when overwrite-mode is
>> active, delete-backward-char untabifies while deleting.  This behavior
>> is useful when called interactively, but not clean when called
>> programmatically.
> Programmatically, you should call delete-region anyway.

Indeed, I've just added delete-backward-char to
byte-compile-interactive-only-functions.


        Stefan