From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: "Redekopp, Eric" <err291@mail.usask.ca>,
"60646@debbugs.gnu.org" <60646@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#60646: 28.2; delete-selection-mode
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 09:15:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ri5dihq.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB548840E8AB8AD4DCCABF3B7AF3F99@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 8 Jan 2023 16:34:56 +0000")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> I would like to express my strong support
>> for enabling delete-selection-mode by default.
>> This is standard for almost all other text
>> applications and feels unintuitive not to have it.
>
> +1. I've advocated the same for decades.
>
> This should have happened when we turned on
> `transient-mark-mode' by default. And both
> of those default-behavior changes should
> really have happened long before that.
I disagree, but we've had this argument before, so please just leave
things as they are.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-14 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-08 1:31 bug#60646: 28.2; delete-selection-mode Redekopp, Eric
2023-01-08 16:34 ` Drew Adams
2023-01-14 1:15 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-01-14 11:51 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2023-01-14 12:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-05 21:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-01-15 9:25 ` Visuwesh
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