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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	7260@debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:30:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eibf3659.fsf__1812.56655273518$1287938662$gmane$org@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1P9Ynv-0005Fy-ER@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 23 Oct 2010 03:46:15 -0400")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>   It sounds rather odd to have `C-d' not delete the active region.  If
>   you (for instance) Shift-Right an area, and then press `DEL', I think
>   most people would expect the region you've just selected to be deleted.
>
> After shift-arrows is a special case when it might be proper for DEL
> and C-d to delete the region.

This might be OK, and indeed I think it should at least be an option.
One problem is that it can be confusing.  Currently, temporarily active
regions (i.e. shift-selected and/or mouse-selected) behave as much like
ordinary active regions as possible, with respect to user commands.  If
we make DEL behave differently for one type of region, what's the
justification for limiting ourselves to DEL?

For instance, in other X applications, shift-selecting a region and
typing a self-inserting character replaces the region.  By this
reasoning, shouldn't we enable Delete Selection mode style behavior for
shift-selected regions?





  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-24 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.4.1287666765.3734.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-21 17:21 ` bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-21 18:19   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-21 18:26     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-21 18:45   ` Drew Adams
2010-10-21 19:39   ` Chong Yidong
     [not found]   ` <mailman.8.1287690197.32629.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-21 20:01     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-21 20:16       ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-21 20:30         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
     [not found]   ` <A491447AE2F940C4A8A962F87022827B@us.oracle.com>
2010-10-22 12:22     ` Richard Stallman
     [not found]     ` <E1P9Gdq-0001N1-Pt@fencepost.gnu.org>
2010-10-22 13:52       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
     [not found]       ` <m3wrpae3ne.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
2010-10-22 15:04         ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-22 15:47         ` Miles Bader
     [not found]         ` <m31v7iclqk.fsf@hase.home>
2010-10-22 15:49           ` Miles Bader
     [not found]         ` <87sjzyp6u3.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
2010-10-22 16:10           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-21 12:53             ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-22 16:44               ` David Kastrup
2012-02-19  6:09               ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-22 16:42             ` Andreas Schwab
     [not found]             ` <m3fwvyb2lz.fsf@hase.home>
2010-10-22 16:45               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
     [not found]               ` <m3ocamtbvo.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
2010-10-22 18:24                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-23  7:46         ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-23  7:46         ` Richard Stallman
     [not found]         ` <E1P9Ynv-0005Fy-ER@fencepost.gnu.org>
2010-10-23  9:38           ` Jan Djärv
     [not found]           ` <4CC2AD28.5060504@swipnet.se>
2010-10-23 17:26             ` James Cloos
     [not found]             ` <m3fwvwbz1s.fsf@jhcloos.com>
2010-10-23 17:54               ` James Cloos
2010-10-24 16:30           ` Chong Yidong [this message]
     [not found]           ` <87eibf3659.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
2010-10-25 12:08             ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-23 11:18         ` Bastien
     [not found]         ` <878w1pi2cl.fsf@altern.org>
     [not found]           ` <877hh9ng5m.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
2010-10-23 16:09             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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