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Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful


From: Christoph
Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:14:30 -0600
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On 9/18/2010 6:02 AM, Sebastian Rose wrote:

This change has removed a reaonable distinction between deleting a
character (C-d) and deleting a region (C-w) which was a good thing.

Yet another bad change.

Actually, C-d runs delete-char (or in 24.0.50 delete-forward-char) and C-w runs kill-region. I thought the difference between delete and kill was that the latter puts the killed section on the kill-ring, no? I would definitely appreciate a distinctive behavior like that.

Btw, in 23.2 (on Windows), how do I delete (not kill) an active region?

C-Space, C-f a couple of times to select word, then neither Backspace, nor Delete actually delete the active region. I can only kill it with C-w.

Christoph



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