Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >    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.

Eh, sorry, thanks Drew, I meant backspace not C-d.