Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>    > It won't bother anyone for `delete' to delete the region.  Making
>    > `backspace' do so is the change that will bother lots of users.
>
>    But it's also the only such change that really matters for
>    newbie-friendless.
>
> I am not convinced it does.  The case in which newbies would expect
> Backspace to delete the region is after mouse-selecting it,
> and it already does delete the region in that case.


I think a newbie expect the visible region to be delete by backspace
always (at least I think that is the case on w32). Why don't you think
that?