From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Allowing point to be outside the window? Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:26:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83pmqhtuzz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ilwd7zaq.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <87ilwd7zaq.fsf@yahoo.com> <83bl24yaed.fsf@gnu.org> <87sfvg7l51.fsf@yahoo.com> <83zgpowu23.fsf@gnu.org> <87zgpo5tws.fsf@yahoo.com> <83pmqkwi6r.fsf@gnu.org> <87v90c5su6.fsf@yahoo.com> <83o864wg2a.fsf@gnu.org> <87ilwb68ck.fsf@yahoo.com> <83zgpnunfo.fsf@gnu.org> <87fsrf3xmd.fsf@yahoo.com> <83y257ulfp.fsf@gnu.org> <8735ne4e0e.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1095"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 30 18:27:15 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ms6uQ-00005H-MO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:27:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48380 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ms6uP-00073G-2H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:27:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37952) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ms6td-0005Zy-8N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:26:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=41956 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ms6tb-0004e3-Sn; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:26:24 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=3Ui/BdtonjBGxLU1FK6I/Dxw+0xuhNclF1Q5xWbMti4=; b=in4krz0GWu8t odR+43gX6HADlIdYZuGeq2if5DdffWZtzFWkrCnmCypOnyoBji250Tn1eXpQyiZjZqb6/JxA/tmi8 mhAiOInYmdRdDf4UNbU0SYqt2To9OI/PhN2ki+K1bekvMMGJxRE/cQS3GAzlEdAshErSIXVEUEG/0 FE/pFCe0iFRJqzwDUiPGDHaD5zeHKQkZf5Dm9wq/Y/ut9aEzMF4OlUplVWLItCtZovVTeXgobjsjx RSRlTJC6dwzq+dwnbiDfaeA4LSHvFo68/lknP3kk0grW4ShJysy5LkPomMe1rKe/MS6M+43alkIVw ABmI9dUSAyV3dzNkqvPTXQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4448 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ms6tb-0006SW-LJ; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:26:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:49:46 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280545 Archived-At: > From: Drew Adams > CC: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" > Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:49:46 +0000 > > If we add the ability (as an option) to > let point be off-window, I'm guessing it > might entail the risk that someone uses > `C-w' and is not aware of perhaps killing > a chunk of text (perhaps a big chunk). > > Should we maybe consider an (optional) > warning message or an optional confirmation > requirement? I think kill commands that use point should be disabled when point is outside of the viewport.