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: delete-selection-mode Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:28:18 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <874okcx1tp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87ocitw2dl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <201003130001.o2D01FFQ003489@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87vdd1yqe4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87eijjzrkd.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <20100317143519.GB4381@muc.de> <87vdcui6oh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20100318101223.GB2704@muc.de> <87ocil3edy.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> <87fx3xzokg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87eijhic9f.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87d3z1wbgb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87iq8t9mhl.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268980219 16670 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2010 06:30:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:30:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 19 07:30:15 2010 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 1NsVip-00047N-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:30:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsVio-0008VB-Hr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:30:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NsVii-0008V6-GX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57189 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsVig-0008Ux-VN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsVid-0000b6-Tt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60903) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsVid-0000b1-NO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsVid-00044m-6u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:30:03 +0100 Original-Received: from p5b2c294b.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.44.41.75]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:30:03 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p5b2c294b.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:30:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b2c294b.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/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nFYNM0HfhqmVA0XI50sNhPUjyyM= 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:122249 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: >>>>> So do fringes, toolbars, menus, scrollbars, the splash screen, syntax >>>>> highlighting and almost every other change we've made to Emacs over >>>>> the years. >>>> >>>> None of them destroy your text given the same keystrokes. >>> >>> You can accidentally type C-w and destroy your text. >> >> C-y undoes the damage even in buffers without undo history. > > I meant the cases when deletion went unnoticed. With the active region > this is less likely, because you have a clear visual indication when > the region is active. You type C-w to pass the time? Pretty much _all_ commands change the buffer without warning. -- David Kastrup