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Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete
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Ian Zimmerman |
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Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete |
Date: |
Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:57:49 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
Richard> * Are you in favor of this change?
No.
Richard> * Are you opposed to this change?
Yes.
Richard> * How strongly do you feel about the matter?
Very strongly.
Richard> * What are the cases where you find it helps?
None. If I know I have an active region, I can kill it with C-w. The
fact that it goes into the kill ring is not important 99% of the time,
and in the other 1% I can just define a keybinding (perhaps temporary)
for delete-region.
Richard> * What are the cases where you find it hurts?
It would make me scream every time I select a region and then forget
about it (which is _very_ often) and then try to activate
delete-backward-char with DEL (which is _also very often_). By the way,
what would delete-backward-char be bound to if this change is
implemented?
Richard> * What is your level of Emacs experience?
Experienced Emacs Lisp programmer.
Richard> * What would you think of this further change?
Opposed, on similar grounds.
Richard> Please send your responses to emacs-delete-poll@gnu.org.
All in all, if the change is made I'll just override it in my .emacs :-P
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Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete, Suvayu Ali, 2011/10/03