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Re: draft for DEL key poll
From: |
Stefan Reichör |
Subject: |
Re: draft for DEL key poll |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:30:20 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> Karl Fogel <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>>>I'm planning the poll about DEL. Here is a draft for comments. (I
>>>will also write a poll about completion.)
>>>
>>>In Emacs 24, now in pretest, a change is being considered for DEL
>>>(often the Backspace key) and the Delete function key. When there is
>>>an active region, they would delete the region instead of just one
>>>character. This is enabled by default in the current pretest, so
>>>building and using the pretest is a way to test it.
>
>>
>> It would be great to have some elisp I could evaluate to test this
>> change before I vote in a poll about it.
>
> Actually, if you use cua-mode, DEL and BS have always behaved like this!
> Maybe this fact should be mentioned in the poll, so users of cua-mode
> are not confused when trying to determine what's changed (since nothing
> changed).
>
> I guess cua-mode need some testing under 24.1 in this respect
> (in particular, cua-mode saves the deleted text in register "0",
> which I strongly prefer to messing with the kill-ring).
When using cua rectangle mode (start with C-RET), DEL does not delete the
selection.
It just deletes one character and disables the selection.
This is often annoying. Is this a bug or a design feature?
I consider it a bug.
Stefan.
- Re: Emacs pretest 24.0.90, (continued)
- Re: Emacs pretest 24.0.90, Bastien, 2011/09/26
- Re: Emacs pretest 24.0.90, Rasmus, 2011/09/26
- draft for DEL key poll, Richard Stallman, 2011/09/26
- Re: draft for DEL key poll, Karl Fogel, 2011/09/26
- Re: draft for DEL key poll, Kim F. Storm, 2011/09/26
- Re: draft for DEL key poll,
Stefan Reichör <=
- Re: draft for DEL key poll, Richard Stallman, 2011/09/27
- Re: draft for DEL key poll, Kim F. Storm, 2011/09/28
- Re: draft for DEL key poll, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/28
- Re: draft for DEL key poll, Richard Stallman, 2011/09/29
- Re: draft for DEL key poll, Richard Stallman, 2011/09/27
disable delete-selection-mode? (was: Re: draft for DEL key poll), chad, 2011/09/26
Re: draft for DEL key poll, Juri Linkov, 2011/09/26