Re: draft for DEL key poll

[chad]

On Sep 29, 2011, at 3:49 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:

>    If ou want to act on a single character, why did you activate the region?  
> 
> Perhaps because you wanted to go to the other side of it with C-x C-x,
> is the usual reason in my case.
> 
> Another reason is, you want to do something to the region, so you mark
> it, but then you decide to first insert some text at the end of it.

So, only in situations where you explicitly don't want to activate the region?
Does it often happen that you change your mind about activating the 
region? The C-x C-x case happens to me also, but rarely, and I find that
`C-x C-x C-x C-x' is comfortable enough in those cases.

*Chad