Re: draft for DEL key poll

[Richard Stallman]

    This description fails to explain the underlying logic behind the
    change.

It is not needed.  The purpose of the poll is to ask people like or
dislike, and why.  It isn't supposed to argue in favor of the feature.

    Anyone who argues that DEL ought not to delete a "normal" active region
    should provide a convincing explanation of why DEL should be treated
    differently from other Emacs commands that act on active regions.

DEL is a basic and frequent command, so it should make distinctions as
is convenient for users, including special cases when that's what's
convenient.  Uniformity is not the priority for commands such as this.

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