RE: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[Drew Adams]

> > > Deleting an active region with Backspace is a bad idea, 
> > > IMO: that's not how other apps behave, while this feature
> > > exists to be compatible with other apps.
> > 
> > Just tried it in the location bar of firefox.  Backspace 
> > certainly does delete an active region there.
> 
> Firefox does a lot of things that others don't.

And IE and Outlook and Word and Windows Explorer and...

Hitting Backspace in most apps on Windows deletes the selection.