From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Updated proposal for DEL to delete active region
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 23:39:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vd3mx9z.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 800971D1E7124B2CA4885E0242798264@us.oracle.com
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> > 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.
You could read up on the corresponding discussion. Tying special
behavior to symbols rather than functions is a bad idea.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-22 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-22 17:44 Updated proposal for DEL to delete active region Chong Yidong
2010-05-22 18:37 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-22 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-22 20:43 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-22 21:39 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2010-05-22 22:14 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-22 21:37 ` David Kastrup
2010-05-22 23:40 ` Chong Yidong
2010-05-23 0:30 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-23 17:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-05-24 21:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-23 1:33 ` Stefan Monnier
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