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: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:24:39 +0100 Message-ID: <47B8B427.4070003@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> <47B39231.8010108@gmail.com> <200802151711.m1FHB3Y3008798@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87odafpdie.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 1203287121 16303 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2008 22:25:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 17 23:25:44 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 1JQrx5-0006mT-AI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:25:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQrwa-0002VZ-I8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQrwW-0002UE-Hf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:25:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQrwU-0002T4-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:25:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQrwU-0002Sv-OW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:25:02 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQrwN-00018E-UA; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:24:56 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:64899 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JQrwL-0004Ly-8F; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:24:54 +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: <87odafpdie.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080217-0, 2008-02-17), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JQrwL-0004Ly-8F. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JQrwL-0004Ly-8F 4a6300a7d81b0bff4fdb4f222c99b818 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:89402 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > Richard Stallman writes: >> This might be a superior for Delete Selection mode. >> If we want to promote it that way, we should choose a better >> name that CUA Selection mode, because most people won't know >> what "CUA" means. > > cua-selection-mode is far more intrusive though, as it adds > "shift-select" behavior (all shifted movement keys implicitly set and > activate the mark if it hasn't already been activated). To implement > that behavior both adds a post-command hook, and rebinds a bunch of very > common commands. The feature is IMO opinion very useful (though I use cua-mode -- together with viper...). Should the "shift-select" behaviour be reimplemented?