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: position on changing defaults? Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:00:55 +0100 Message-ID: <47CF4247.6050702@gmail.com> References: <200803050637.m256bXL3008361@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87hcfkdhqk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87pru8enjx.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> 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 1204765282 10593 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2008 01:01:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 01:01:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 06 02:01:48 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 1JX4UW-00061I-5B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:01:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JX4Ty-0006Eo-Vk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:01:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JX4Tv-0006Ef-Kx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:01:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JX4Tu-0006EQ-6y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:01:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JX4Tu-0006EM-3S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:01:10 -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 1JX4Tt-0006QG-Ff for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:01:09 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:64265 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JX4Tp-0000dW-4J; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:01:05 +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: <87pru8enjx.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080305-1, 2008-03-05), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JX4Tp-0000dW-4J. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JX4Tp-0000dW-4J 615d3d1168a9d27702c360861442833e 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:91456 Archived-At: Kim F. Storm wrote: > Or use cua-selection-mode - to get all the benefits it provides! I really agree. Beside what Kim mentioned I think it is important to keep the default Emacs key usage as close to those in other applications as possible (without breaking Emacs use of C-x etc of course) and then cua-selection-mode is the natural choice.