Juergen Appel wrote:
> 
> lo.
> 
> when a selection is made under konqueror (address list)/ kedit / the rest of
> the "mark and you can edit text" programs and you hit space / del /backspace
> the selection is deleted.
> kword (maybe other components of koffice as well) does not erase the
> selection in that case. IMHO this uncommon behaviour is confusing to the user.
> 
> any1 who agrees?

Well, me, dep and a bunch of other people.  I still don't understand the
argument for doing it the way it is now.