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Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:56:09 -0400

    > It won't bother anyone for `delete' to delete the region.  Making
    > `backspace' do so is the change that will bother lots of users.

    But it's also the only such change that really matters for
    newbie-friendless.

I am not convinced it does.  The case in which newbies would expect
Backspace to delete the region is after mouse-selecting it,
and it already does delete the region in that case.



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