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Kyle Jones writes:
 > I question the choice of eval-expression as a disabled command.
 > A person ignorant of Lisp isn't going to do themself any damage
 > with this command.
 >
 > On the other wand, it's quite easy to type C-w instead of C-e or
 > C-s or C-q, but oddly enough kill-region is not disabled by
 > default.

Barry Margolin writes:
 > Danger is not the only criterion used for deciding which commands should be
 > initially enabled.  Cutting and pasting are standard, essential operations
 > of most text editors, so disabling the cut command is not considered
 > reasonable.  Most users have little need to evaluate Lisp expressions, so
 > disabling this command doesn't impact many users.

kill-region is only one of several cut commands.  You can cuit
and paste lines, sentences, words and paragraphs without using
C-w.  These commands aren't as dangerous as kill-region because
they don't use the value of mark as a delimiter of the region to
kill.  The mark is pushed pretty often in an editing sessio,
often as the result of something besides set-mark-command.  You
can chop off a good sized region of text without realizing it.

I've pretty handy with Emacs and even I wouldn't mind having
something like vi's "set report" facility so you would get a
message if x number of lines are deleted.  This would be more
useful than disabling the command outright.