GNU bug report logs - #7260
24.0.50; DEL screwed up

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:51:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 7235

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com, 7260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:08:29 -0400

      If
    we make DEL behave differently for one type of region, what's the
    justification for limiting ourselves to DEL?

DEL is so special that we need no "justification" for treating
it specially.  However, that's not what I recommend.  It's not
just DEL, it is also C-d.

    For instance, in other X applications, shift-selecting a region and
    typing a self-inserting character replaces the region.  By this
    reasoning, shouldn't we enable Delete Selection mode style behavior for
    shift-selected regions?

Maybe we should fully enable that behavior after shift-selections
and after mouse-selections.

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Richard Stallman
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