From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: AW: delete-selection-mode Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:09:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20100317.200901.408057447.hanche@math.ntnu.no> References: <4BA0CDF9.40707@online.de> <76682E4761EA432EB929E5E199B0F92A@us.oracle.com> <87wrxb57e1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268870963 31129 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2010 00:09:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:09:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 18 01:09:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ns3Ib-0005IY-Jk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:09:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43009 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns3Ib-0001Sy-1J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:09:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns3IV-0001RI-J7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:09:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51810 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns3IU-0001QV-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:09:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ns3IS-0000Ik-GJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from anne.math.ntnu.no ([129.241.15.150]:64794) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ns3IS-0000IA-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:09:08 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 12737 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2010 00:09:03 -0000 Original-Received: from gauss.math.ntnu.no (HELO localhost) (hanche@129.241.15.102) by anne.math.ntnu.no with ESMTPA; 18 Mar 2010 00:09:03 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87wrxb57e1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3.50 on Emacs 23.1.92 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122124 Archived-At: + David Kastrup : > "Drew Adams" writes: > > >> telling users ... about the advantage having delsel-mode off. > > > > There is none. > > You can set the mark, move somewhere else, type stuff there, and return > using C-x C-x, again typing stuff there, without destroying anything you > have written. You can still do that with delete-selection-mode turned on; you just need to hit C-g to deactivate the mark before starting typing in the new location. - Harald