Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[David Kastrup]

Christoph <address@hidden> writes:

> On 9/18/2010 12:40 PM, Miles Bader wrote:
>
>> I press C-d to delete the character after the cursor -- the command is
>> called "delete-forward-char" after all.
>
> In 23.2 you use C-d to delete the character UNDER the cursor. Unless
> you have a different definition of cursor than I do.

Likely.  Emacs has the cursor _between_ characters.  vi has the cursor
_on_ characters.  So vi has commands for inserting before and after a
character, before and after a line and so on.  Emacs has only one kind
of insertion, _at_ point.

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David Kastrup