From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: kill ring menu Date: 04 May 2002 12:49:56 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <877kmka7x7.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <1020022891.27106.142.camel@space-ghost> <200204290505.g3T55t006146@aztec.santafe.edu> <1020059236.31789.358.camel@space-ghost> <200204300519.g3U5Js306727@aztec.santafe.edu> <1020212569.27106.2246.camel@space-ghost> <200205011926.g41JQBC07690@aztec.santafe.edu> <1020284783.27106.3417.camel@space-ghost> <200205031825.g43IPrt00762@aztec.santafe.edu> <87u1pp9hma.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <200205040336.g443aZi00988@aztec.santafe.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020484275 20410 127.0.0.1 (4 May 2002 03:51:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 03:51:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: walters@debian.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 173qZn-0005J4-00 for ; Sat, 04 May 2002 05:51:15 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 173qfn-0004Em-00 for ; Sat, 04 May 2002 05:57:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 173qZd-0003Vy-00; Fri, 03 May 2002 23:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp02.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.132]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 173qYa-0003Qa-00; Fri, 03 May 2002 23:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from tc-2-152.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.25.152] helo=tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp) by smtp02.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 173qYY-0003Tj-00; Sat, 04 May 2002 12:49:59 +0900 Original-Received: by tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BE8F33090; Sat, 4 May 2002 12:49:56 +0900 (JST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <200205040336.g443aZi00988@aztec.santafe.edu> Original-Lines: 24 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3566 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3566 Richard Stallman writes: > I've always thought it would be handy if it would do > the equivalent of `C-w C-y M-y' in that situation. > > This would be extremely annoying if you were not recently doing yanking. > There is always a region, after all. Some unpredictable amount of text, > perhaps large, would be replaced. If you did not notice, the results > would be really bad. Ah -- I use transient-mark-mode, which makes the dynamics of such things different. I think with TMM active, it would be useful behavior, but I can see that it would probably suck if TMM wasn't active... Would this make sense as `transient-mark-mode only' behavior? BTW, I'm pretty sure I've used an emacs-like editor that did this, and found it quite handy (the command bound to M-y was something like `replace region' and behaved similarly to Emacs' M-y when repeated), though I can't confidently remember which one; maybe it was the ATK `ez' editor, which basically always used behavior similar to transient-mark-mode. -Miles -- `The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement'