Subject: Re: bug#78262: 30.1; comint-delchar-or-maybe-eof doesn't respect delete-active-region

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 22:40:33 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 20:53:17 +0300
> 
> >> PS: this still requires
> >>
> >>   (put 'comint-delchar-or-maybe-eof 'delete-selection 'supersede)
> >>
> >> that could be added later.
> >
> > Hmm... sorry my `delete-selection`-fu is rusty, what would this
> > do/fix, again?
> 
> This is a copy from delsel.el
> 
>   ;; delete-backward-char and delete-forward-char already delete the selection by
>   ;; default, but not delete-char.
>   (put 'delete-char 'delete-selection 'supersede)
> 
> that will do the same for 'comint-delchar-or-maybe-eof'
> that uses 'delete-char' by default.

And that's why I questioned the wisdom of doing this.  Deleting the
entire active region is a dangerous operation, and users who don't
expect that will be extremely annoyed, I'm afraid.