From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:41:43 +0300 Message-ID: <835zzhv2zs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k1nxvm5j.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536327651 14902 195.159.176.226 (7 Sep 2018 13:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 13:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hw@adminart.net, spacibba@aol.com, npostavs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Phil Sainty Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 07 15:40:47 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 1fyH0A-0003nA-H1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:40:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38743 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyH2G-0000iC-Pd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:42:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyH1G-0007r1-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:41:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyH1A-0000mw-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:41:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53098) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyH18-0000m2-Qw; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3466 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fyH17-0005M8-LM; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:41:46 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Phil Sainty on Fri, 07 Sep 2018 21:40:26 +1200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:229395 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 21:40:26 +1200 > From: Phil Sainty > Cc: Noam Postavsky , hw@adminart.net, spacibba@aol.com, > phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I think what I'd be most in favour of would be a new link on the > splash screen which invited users to customize some of the most > fundamental aspects in which the default Emacs behaviours > conflict with the typical behaviour of newer applications with > which the user may be more familiar. I think this would be one > of those options. CUA mode would be another. Patches to that effect are welcome. > User options can belong to multiple groups though, can't they? > Perhaps an initial implementation is as simple as identifying > such options, adding them to a common group, and linking to that > group from the splash screen? I suggested that in a recent thread, so I'm in favor of identifying these groups. Thanks.