RE: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[Drew Adams]

> > I propose removing this functionality from C-d.  If 
> > mac/windows users want to delete a region, they can use DEL (backspace).
> 
> There's no DEL key on Windows, only <Delete>, which is remapped to
> C-d.  Maybe the command should distinguish whether it was run by C-d
> or <Delete>, and behave differently wrt the active region.

No.  Both <delete> and C-d, whether mapped together or not, should do what they
have always done in Emacs: delete the next char. Whether the region is active or
not.

> Deleting an active region with Backspace is a bad idea, IMO: that's
> not how other apps behave, while this feature exists to be compatible
> with other apps.

Huh? That's how the Backspace key behaves in other apps on Windows, AFAICT.
(Well, "active region" is only an Emacs thing, but for Windows the selection is
deleted when you hit Backspace.)