Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:49:19 +0900
>> 
>> I propose removing this functionality from C-d.  If mac/windows users
>> want to delete a region, they can use DEL (backspace).
>
> There's no DEL key on Windows, only <Delete>, which is remapped to
> C-d.  Maybe the command should distinguish whether it was run by C-d
> or <Delete>, and behave differently wrt the active region.
>
> Deleting an active region with Backspace is a bad idea, IMO: that's
> not how other apps behave, while this feature exists to be compatible
> with other apps.

Just tried it in the location bar of firefox.  Backspace certainly does
delete an active region there.

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David Kastrup