Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[David Kastrup]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>>    > It won't bother anyone for `delete' to delete the region.  Making
>>    > `backspace' do so is the change that will bother lots of users.
>>
>>    But it's also the only such change that really matters for
>>    newbie-friendless.
>>
>> I am not convinced it does.  The case in which newbies would expect
>> Backspace to delete the region is after mouse-selecting it,
>> and it already does delete the region in that case.
>
>
> I think a newbie expect the visible region to be delete by backspace
> always (at least I think that is the case on w32). Why don't you think
> that?

Is there _any_ way to create an active region under w32 that does not
already do delete-by-backspace in Emacs?

-- 
David Kastrup