Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[Deniz Dogan]

2010/9/21 Leo <address@hidden>:
> 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.
>

I'm not sure what you mean. I use C-x C-l and C-x C-u on a nearly
daily basis. If M-l and M-u executed downcase-region and upcase-region
if the region was active, I'd be happy to use that instead.

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Deniz Dogan