Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[Sebastian Rose]

Christoph <address@hidden> writes:
> On 9/18/2010 1:41 PM, Sebastian Rose wrote:
>
>> You could (re-)bind keys to make something "simple" like deleting a
>> whole bunch of text for good the default for you.
>
> Why wouldn't something simple like that be available with a simple key
> combination out of the box?


It is.  `C-w'


>> The current situation is, we have to rebind more and more keys to do
>> something reasonable in many, many cases.  That's worse.
>
> I don't understand what you mean.

It was stated in one of the mails before, that "oldtimers" could re-bind
keys to keep them doing, in this case, the sensible thing.  The subject
of this thread is just one out of several discussions and changes that
came up this year.




Sebastian