In Emacs 24, now in pretest, a change is being considered for ASCII DEL (on most keyboards, the Backspace key) and the Delete function key. The change affects the case of an active region that was not dragged with the mouse. The change is that these commands would delete the region, rather than just one character as now.
In the past, this behavior was enabled in some minor modes: CUA mode, Delete Selection mode, and PC Selection mode. In the 24.0.90 pretest, this behavior is enabled by default. Thus, building and using the pretest is an easy way to try the change. Here are the questions we hope you will answer: * Are you in favor of this change? * Are you opposed to this change? * How strongly do you feel about the matter? We don't want to just "count votes" -- we want to understand how this affects users. So if you care about the issue, please tell us how the change affects your editing. * What are the cases where you find it helps? * What are the cases where you find it hurts? * What is your level of Emacs experience? A further change in the same area has been suggested: when there is an active region, a self-inserting character would delete the region before the character is inserted by default. * What would you think of this further change? Please send your responses to emacs-delete-p...@gnu.org. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/ _______________________________________________ Info-gnu-emacs mailing list Info-gnu-emacs@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu-emacs
