From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Phil Sainty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:08:22 +1200 Message-ID: <79cb3d3178b8d65b581b127b5235ee3b@webmail.orcon.net.nz> References: <83k1nxvm5j.fsf@gnu.org> <87sh2ih0bp.fsf@fastmail.fm> <770f48a8-664a-40ae-8e03-19f6aad248b6@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536549606 1428 195.159.176.226 (10 Sep 2018 03:20:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 03:20:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Orcon Webmail Cc: hw@adminart.net, spacibba@aol.com, Joost Kremers , Noam Postavsky , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii , phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 10 05:20:02 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fzCk5-0000FZ-Ap for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 05:20:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49490 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzCmB-0006D5-Ol for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 23:22:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48515) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzCk9-0004hF-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 23:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzCZ9-0002Ok-Eo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 23:08:44 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-1.orcon.net.nz ([60.234.4.34]:56090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzCZ3-0002Ay-Uu; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 23:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.253.37.70] (port=56863 helo=webmail.orcon.net.nz) by smtp-1.orcon.net.nz with esmtpa (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fzCYp-0000YJ-5t; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:08:23 +1200 Original-Received: from wlgwil-nat-office.catalyst.net.nz ([202.78.240.7]) via [10.253.37.253] by webmail.orcon.net.nz with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:08:22 +1200 In-Reply-To: <770f48a8-664a-40ae-8e03-19f6aad248b6@default> X-Sender: psainty@orcon.net.nz X-GeoIP: -- X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_bar: -- X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 60.234.4.34 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229585 Archived-At: On 2018-09-10 10:24, Drew Adams wrote: > The only argument I saw here (unless I've forgotten already) > in favor of it being off (by default or not) is that when it is on > a user (new or old) can too easily accidentally delete text. > > (Some added "irretrievably", but I haven't seen that claim > supported yet.) Undo isn't *necessarily* enabled in all buffers? i.e. `buffer-disable-undo'. That's not so common, but IIRC some buffers are set that way by default? -Phil