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: Some developement questions Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 21:38:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83k1nywjwv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <<8336v6cvem.fsf@gnu.org>> <<8736v6icgt.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83tvnmb958.fsf@gnu.org>> <<877ekigiiw.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <837ekhb2me.fsf@gnu.org>> <<87zhxcbmtr.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83in409lub.fsf@gnu.org>> <<871sanb71j.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83y3cu7t9j.fsf@gnu.org>> <<87lg8t2ki9.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <20180827015422.lcq44zvsjffeau4j@Ergus>> <<83a7p76f5e.fsf@gnu.org> <87lg8p9o6y.fsf@russet.org.uk>> <<83pnxx1foj.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1o1a06q.fsf@russet.org.uk>> <<877ek1ql6u.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <87tvn2g665.fsf@russet.org.uk> > <<83r2i6wv4v.fsf@gnu.org>> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536259097 12301 195.159.176.226 (6 Sep 2018 18:38:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 18:38:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hw@adminart.net, spacibba@aol.com, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 20:38:12 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 1fxzAS-00037c-NS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 20:38:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35002 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxzCZ-0002ZX-2l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:40:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56191) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxzBt-0002ZG-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:39:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxzBp-0004aZ-Ql for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:39:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50110) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxzAw-0003an-1D; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:38:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4096 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fxzAv-0000mp-JE; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:38:41 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Thu, 6 Sep 2018 07:56:13 -0700 (PDT)) 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:229356 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 07:56:13 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: hw@adminart.net, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > phillip.lord@russet.org.uk > > > > we should turn on `delete-selection-mode' by default. > > > > I don't think we can, because it gets in the way when editing code. > > How so? It doesn't get in my way. Quite the contrary - I appreciate > it for editing code. > > Please give a recipe Type "C-x C-x", then some letter: puff! the whole region is gone. This could be okay in text modes, but in code buffers users generally don't replace regions with single letters.