Re: Re[2]: [9fans] home, end ^h^j^k^l

["Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>]

From: "Matt H" <matt@proweb.co.uk>
> in windows if you select some text and press backspace you delete the
> selected text. If you select some text in acme it replaces the current
> text with a backspace so it also deletes the character to the left of
> your selected text. So, as you must do, I select one less then the
> ones I want to delete.

no, you hit cut.

plan 9 gets it right, windows gets it wrong.

plan 9 replaces selected text by the typed text.  if the replacement
text is a backspace then it does exactly as advertised.  ie. there is
no special case for backspace.  special cases are a curse.

consider how drag and drop works on windows with the file mangler.
it does a copy if you drag from a: to c: but it does a move if you
drag and drop on c: -- totally counterintuitive.  it would be like
if cp(1) made an excutive decision based on source and target.