Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete

[Tassilo Horn]

Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> writes:

Hi Ian,

> 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_).

How can you forget about your active region?  I mean, it's highlighted.
If you already turned off transient-mark-mode, then you won't be
affected anyway.

> By the way, what would delete-backward-char be bound to if this change
> is implemented?

,----[ C-h f delete-backward-char RET ]
| delete-backward-char is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'.
| 
| It is bound to DEL.
| 
| (delete-backward-char N &optional KILLFLAG)
| 
| Delete the previous N characters (following if N is negative).
| If Transient Mark mode is enabled, the mark is active, and N is 1,
| delete the text in the region and deactivate the mark instead.
| To disable this, set `delete-active-region' to nil.
| 
| Optional second arg KILLFLAG, if non-nil, means to kill (save in
| kill ring) instead of delete.  Interactively, N is the prefix
| arg, and KILLFLAG is set if N is explicitly specified.
| 
| In Overwrite mode, single character backward deletion may replace
| tabs with spaces so as to back over columns, unless point is at
| the end of the line.
`----

Bye,
Tassilo