Re: bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up

[David Kastrup]

James Cloos <address@hidden> writes:

> [I see my followup got truncated; trying again. -JimC]
>
>>>>>> "JD" == Jan Djarv <address@hidden> writes:
>
> JD> FWIW, I often mark a region with the mouse and press DEL to delete it.
> JD> It is a habit picked up from other programs.  But then again, I
> JD> enabled delsel a long time ago, so I'm used to that behaviour.
>
> Perhaps what would kill :^) the controversy would be a dwim version,
> kill-or-delete, which would add the region to the kill buffer if it
> is big enough, but not bother if it is small.

No.  Unpredictability is not a virtue.  Emacs has keyboard macros, and I
don't want them to fail on a whim.

-- 
David Kastrup