Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[Richard Stallman]

    I notice that various deletion commands will now delete an active
    region.  The most obviously useful to newbies is DEL (aka backspace),
    as that's what other platforms use, and I don't have any problems with
    that (and I might even use it occasionally)

Did people go ahead with that change?  Such a change should not be made
without polling the users first.

I tried it for a few days and found it rather painful.