Re: Updated proposal for DEL to delete active region

[David Kastrup]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

>> > So we now break any existing code [...]
>> 
>> "We now" do nothing of the kind.  That was a PROPOSAL.
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> I was responding to the PROPOSAL.
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> IF the PROPOSAL is followed THEN among the consequences are...
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> Constructive suggestion:
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>> Why not just attach a property to any existing command 
>> symbols that you want to become sensitive to this new
>> feature?  That's the way `delete-selection-mode' does
>> this sort of thing.

You could read up on the corresponding discussion.  Tying special
behavior to symbols rather than functions is a bad idea.

-- 
David Kastrup