From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Updated proposal for DEL to delete active region Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 13:43:26 -0700 Message-ID: <800971D1E7124B2CA4885E0242798264@us.oracle.com> References: <87ljbbbzl1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <611EBC8A88E34310966D561E92C6B1B3@us.oracle.com> <83zkzroj46.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274561028 25959 80.91.229.12 (22 May 2010 20:43:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 20:43:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 22 22:43:46 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFvXt-0006rX-OF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 22:43:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54043 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFvXt-0004Os-7S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 16:43:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39158 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFvXn-0004Me-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 16:43:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFvXk-0001o8-Cx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 16:43:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:22337) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFvXk-0001nt-6l; Sat, 22 May 2010 16:43:36 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o4MKhWN4005716 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 22 May 2010 20:43:34 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o4MKhVa1008034; Sat, 22 May 2010 20:43:32 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt003.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 259913651274560986; Sat, 22 May 2010 13:43:06 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.175.220.217) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 22 May 2010 13:43:06 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <83zkzroj46.fsf@gnu.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5931 Thread-Index: Acr54U5LrmwO4g47T8uBLGPM3Ql1NAADNVjQ X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-Source-IP: acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090204.4BF841F6.013B:SCFMA922111,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:125084 Archived-At: > > So we now break any existing code [...] > > "We now" do nothing of the kind. That was a PROPOSAL. I was responding to the PROPOSAL. IF the PROPOSAL is followed THEN among the consequences are... Constructive suggestion: > Why not just attach a property to any existing command > symbols that you want to become sensitive to this new > feature? That's the way `delete-selection-mode' does > this sort of thing.