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RE: C-d deleting region considered harmful
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: C-d deleting region considered harmful |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:10:17 -0700 |
> > Thanks. But we're discussing here what to do with C-d:
> > for `delete' we already decided that it should delete an
> > active region (by default). Whether you agree with this
> > `delete' behavior is irrelevant.
> >
> > It won't bother anyone for `delete' to delete the region. Making
> > `backspace' do so is the change that will bother lots of users.
>
> However a lot of other people also expect C-d to delete the visible
> region.
Huh? Where do you get that? Who would expect that based on other applications
or platforms? That is certainly not what C-d does on Windows, for instance.
> I think we really need to get compatibility of this kind
> implemented.
Compatibility? With what?
> (I have some ideas for it, but I have a lack of time at
> the moment so I have preferred not to say much about it.)
Start by saying something to back up your preposterous claims that a lot of
people are used to C-d deleting the selection and that there is a
"compatibility" imperative for C-d to do so.
- Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful, (continued)
- Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful, Miles Bader, 2010/09/18
- RE: C-d deleting region considered harmful, Drew Adams, 2010/09/18
- Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful, Richard Stallman, 2010/09/19
- Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful, Lennart Borgman, 2010/09/19
- RE: C-d deleting region considered harmful,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful, Lennart Borgman, 2010/09/20
- Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful, Bastien, 2010/09/20
- Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/20
- Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful, Bastien, 2010/09/20
- Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/20
- Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful, David Kastrup, 2010/09/20
- Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful, Deniz Dogan, 2010/09/20
- Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful, David Kastrup, 2010/09/20
- Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/20
- Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/20