Why disable delete-active-region in meow.

[roife]

By default, the variable delete-active-region is set to true, so when I select a region and press DEL, the whole selected region will be deleted.

However, meow set delete-active-region to nil. It makes DEL just delete a single character under insert mode even with region active, which is quite strange.

I wonder why meow set delete-active-region to false by default and how to delete the selected region under insert mode.

[eshrh]

I believe it's because internally, the meow key for deletion doesn't do anything but call the command bound to C-d.

If this were to be set to true, then meow-delete would delete the whole active region, even in normal mode! There would be no distinction between meow-kill and meow-delete. Meow-delete kind of exists for the purpose of one character deletion. Setting the variable to nil and binding to C-d is just a low-overhead approach.

Do you have a specific use case in mind for deleting the region with the same key as delete-char instead of binding delete-region to a key?

[roife]

In most editors and OS default input boxes (except for CLI editors such as Vim), when use DEL on a active region, the region will be deleted. So it is strange that I cannot do so when using Meow. Maybe the variable should be set to true temporarily before entering insert mode and set to nil after existing insert mode, which is more intuitive.

[DogLooksGood]

The idea is in meow you have one command for region operation and one command for non-region operation. Like meow-kill and meow-delete, so you don't have to care whether you have a region or not.