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bug #53534: [Request] marked text should be deleted by the Backspace key

Submitter:  Martin <clawi>
Submitted:  Sat 31 Mar 2018 05:25:53 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  1 - Wish Status:  Wont Fix
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed

Sun 14 Oct 2018 06:21:42 PM UTC, comment #2: 

A quite similar request in bug #54837 looks like it might get implemented.  See the thread around http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2018-10/msg00037.html.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Sat 31 Mar 2018 05:42:05 PM UTC, comment #1: 

In this respect nano will stay different from other editors: the <Backspace> and <Delete> keys will always just do Backspace and Delete, also when a region is marked -- they will not be transformed to synonyms of the ^K key.  If you want to cut a marked region, use ^K.

(I knew that when I made it possible to Shift-select text, some people would start to expect <Backspace> and <Delete> and any character key to kill or overwrite the entire marked region.  But especially the latter is huge mistake: depending on whether something is selected, typing text might destroy other text.  In nano, this won't happen.)

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Sat 31 Mar 2018 05:25:53 PM UTC, original submission:  

Right now, only the last character of the marking is deleted.

Martin <clawi>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2018-04-17 bens Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2018-03-31 bens Severity3 - Normal 1 - Wish
        StatusNone Wont Fix
        SummaryFeature request: Marked text should be deleted by BACKSPACE key [Request] marked text should be deleted by the Backspace key

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