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: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi <at> gnus.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 7260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:21:54 +0200

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Today I typed DEL after yanking some text and typing C-x C-x to go to
> the beginning of it.  DEL surprised me by deleting the region.

I think most people now agree that `C-x C-x' shouldn't activate the
region when transient-mark-mode is switched on, but nobody has actually
altered that function to stop doing this.

If nobody objects, I'll make that change later tonight.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi <at> gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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