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Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful


From: Leo
Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:23:32 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (Mac OS X 10.6.4)

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




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