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's C-RET binding [was: position on changing defaults?] Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:47:29 +0100 Message-ID: <47D53BF1.70401@gmail.com> References: <200803050637.m256bXL3008361@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87pru8enjx.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <871w6l3u8f.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <871w6j7cga.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <003001c8823a$d7cd5010$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <87lk4r5v2o.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <003101c88242$18736fd0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <7dbe73ed0803100313g46d079dag91e1b8af1f750ee8@mail.gmail.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 1205156951 3097 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2008 13:49:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:49:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Kim F. Storm" , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mathias Dahl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 10 14:49:29 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 1JYiNT-0001mz-Ba for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:49:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYiMv-0004a9-5m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:48:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYiM1-0004Dn-4s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYiLz-0004Cg-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:47:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYiLz-0004CP-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:47:47 -0400 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 1JYiLy-0000Qu-HY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:47:46 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:63771 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JYiLw-0002gJ-8j; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:47:45 +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: <7dbe73ed0803100313g46d079dag91e1b8af1f750ee8@mail.gmail.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080309-0, 2008-03-09), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JYiLw-0002gJ-8j. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JYiLw-0002gJ-8j 71883a570747b65c213ae6684c4a524f 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:92029 Archived-At: Mathias Dahl wrote: >> Here's another thought, FWIW. Does it make sense to set the rectangle mark >> in the minibuffer? > > I use rectangles quite a lot and have never needed it in the > minibuffer. This is not saying it isn't useful there, of course. In > general I tend to avoid too much editing in the minibuffer, especially > for multi-line data because it kinda feels scary, one wrong keypress > and my data will either be accepted (typing RET instead of C-j) or > gone (typing arrow up/down). It would be interesting to know if other > people do much multi-line editing here. Not that much that I have yet done rectangle editing there ... But what do you mean with that your data is gone if you type arrow up/down? When typing a file name for example if I hit then I just hit to get the file name I was typing back.