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Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete
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suvayu ali |
Subject: |
Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete |
Date: |
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 16:40:57 +0200 |
Hi Mark,
Sorry in my response I forgot to distinguish between the Delete key and
the backspace key. You are correct in saying both will have this
behaviour.
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:08 PM, MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com> wrote:
> I hardly ever use the Delete function key. But I use Backspace to delete 1
> character backward all the time. I'd guess several times a minute. This
> change would mess up my typing bigtime! I'd guess that it would be a year
> or two before I stopped accidentally typing Backspace and expecting it to
> delete 1 character backward.
>
That said, I believe what you say above is incomplete. This is what I
observe in the Emacs 24 head at the moment: if there is some text as
follows,
some !_text!
where the text surrounded by exclamation marks indicate the active
region and the underscore indicates the cursor position then pressing
DEL or <deletechar> (backspace or Delete) will result in the following,
some _
If on the other hand there is no active region as below,
some tex_t
pressing DEL will result in,
some te_t
and pressing <deletechar> will result in,
some tex
I like that this feature gives me convenient keybindings irrespective of
whether I choose to delete (delete-region) the text (or active region)
or kill (kill-region) the text, the difference being greater control
over what goes into the kill ring. I hope I have explained myself
clearly this time around.
> Mark
>
:)
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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