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Re: DEL key doesn't kill mouse-dragged region


From: Mathias Dahl
Subject: Re: DEL key doesn't kill mouse-dragged region
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:53:28 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt)

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

>     Does this mean that you suggest DEL to do different things if I have a
>     mouse-dragged highlighted region versus if I have a highlighted region
>     made using something like C-a C-SPC C-SPC C-e DEL (temporarily
>     activate transient mark mode, go to end of line and DEL)? I don't
>     think that is a good idea.
>
> That is what it did, and it seems ok to me.

OK, to me it seems inconsistent.

Anyway, I now discovered what I thought was a bug a while ago. If you
highlight a region using C-SPC C-SPC or using the mouse, C-d (the
Delete key, not Backspace, on my keyboard) works differently. So, *if*
people like it to be like this, I guess DEL (or Backspace as I call
it) should work the same way:

mouse-higlighted: DEL and C-d deletes marked text

transien-mark-highlighted: DEL and C-d only delets one character

Again, if I wasn't clear enough about this before; I think it is bad
design if the user interface works differently just because of *how*
the highlighted mark was done. 

And, IMHO, delete-selection-mode should be enabled for a marked region
to be deleted when pressing DEL or C-d.

I won't argue more about this now.





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