Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[Leo]

On 2010-09-21 07:29 +0100, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> More scientifically, if you have an active region, then you can have
> "modal" behavior: deletion operations can (implicitly) act on the
> region instead of on specific text units, insertion operations can
> (implicitly) substitute new text for the region, and so on. Without
> active regions, you can't have this kind of modal behavior.

Yeah, that is useful. Some prime keys can be freed for better things,
for example, C-x C-l and C-x C-u.

Leo