From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CUA-mode features and documenation Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:58:25 +0100 Message-ID: <47B39231.8010108@gmail.com> References: <000d01c86c82$700dccc0$7051908d@us.oracle.com> <200802121430.m1CEUc6k013361@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <002601c86d8a$a0454db0$405a908d@us.oracle.com> <87tzkdnkee.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87ir0sonaa.fsf_-_@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <200802131623.m1DGNrls003614@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87odakwl2r.fsf@jurta.org> <87myq4saw1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <878x1ov227.fsf@jurta.org> <878x1os6mt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202950789 7966 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2008 00:59:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:59:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Dan Nicolaescu , storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 14 02:00:11 2008 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 4.50) id 1JPSSD-00054W-5c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:59:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JPSRj-00082f-Jc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:59:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JPSRH-0007QY-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:58:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JPSRF-0007OL-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:58:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JPSRF-0007O2-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:58:57 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JPSRB-0006jE-Jn; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:58:53 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:60211 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JPSR9-0003aX-4F; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:58:51 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <878x1os6mt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080213-1, 2008-02-13), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JPSR9-0003aX-4F. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JPSR9-0003aX-4F 050c7ef3c50a9364e2d795fe8cd78fd4 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:89014 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > Juri Linkov writes: >>> _Instead_ of? I think you've been smoking too much Xah Lee... >> I am not an extremist but it seems that having two similar menu items >> will be too confusing. I think `cua-selection-mode' is closer to what >> most users expect from this type of thing nowadays. > > Most users expect MS word. That's not what Emacs is. > > transient-mark-mode is a popular and straight-forward feature that > highlights (heh!) Emacs' native command set, and I don't think we should > bury such things. Is it not reasonable to assume that most new users expects and wants the behaviour that cua-selection-mode gives? Can you explain what is lost if cua-selection-mode is used instead of transient-mark-mode?