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30.1; comint-delchar-or-maybe-eof doesn't respect delete-active-region

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Message #11 received at 78262 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sebastián Monía <sebastian <at> sebasmonia.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 78262 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78262: 30.1; comint-delchar-or-maybe-eof doesn't respect
 delete-active-region
Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 09:24:31 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> But maybe there's a reason it works like this, and my limited comint
>> usage misses the point.
>
> I'm not a frequent user of comint-derived modes, but is this indeed
> consistent with what users expect from interactive shells?  AFAIK,
> shells don't support the notion of "active region" or
> "delete-selection" or anything similar.  Wouldn't this change in
> behavior surprise people?  Should we perhaps have it as an opt-in
> behavior?

Well, that is a good point.
The counterargument (emmm from blogs and reddit :) so take it with a
grain of salt) is that the point of running shells inside Emacs is to
have all the same editing capabilities, combined with the shell.

And another data point: I was suprised/annoyed that it didn't behave the
same as any buffer.

But there's no harm in putting the new behavior behing a new defcustom
comint-delete-active-region? 


-- 
Sebastián Monía
https://site.sebasmonia.com/

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