Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[Sebastian Rose]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:06:08 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> > From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> > Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:45:25 +0200
>> > 
>> > > 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.
>> 
>> Firefox does a lot of things that others don't.
>
> And in any case, hitting <Delete> is a customary op, so removing it is
> not a good idea.
>
> P.S.  Note that I don't use active regions at all, so my personal
> habits will not be affected either way.


This change has removed a reaonable distinction between deleting a
character (C-d) and deleting a region (C-w) which was a good thing.

Yet another bad change.