From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Updated proposal for DEL to delete active region Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 23:39:20 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <871vd3mx9z.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87ljbbbzl1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <611EBC8A88E34310966D561E92C6B1B3@us.oracle.com> <83zkzroj46.fsf@gnu.org> <800971D1E7124B2CA4885E0242798264@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274564415 2664 80.91.229.12 (22 May 2010 21:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 21:40:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 22 23:40:14 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 1OFwQW-0005sN-6T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 23:40:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45783 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFwQV-0002mQ-LT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 17:40:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35460 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFwQP-0002kO-Lr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 17:40:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFwQO-0008AH-DS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 17:40:05 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47402) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFwQO-0008A8-7S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 17:40:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFwQN-0005mQ-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 May 2010 23:40:03 +0200 Original-Received: from p5b2c31dd.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.44.49.221]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 23:40:03 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p5b2c31dd.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 May 2010 23:40:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b2c31dd.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:us/qtmVv4ITY9nXWXv/F2YJt0AA= 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:125086 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" 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