From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: position on changing defaults? Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:30:23 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87d4q8sq9c.fsf@jurta.org> References: <200803050637.m256bXL3008361@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87hcfkdhqk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204760138 28348 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2008 23:35:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:35:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 06 00:36:05 2008 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 4.50) id 1JX39X-00050q-JX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:36:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JX390-0008Rp-Br for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:35:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JX38S-0008CO-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:34:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JX38R-0008BS-7k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:34:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JX38R-0008BI-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:34:55 -0500 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JX38Q-0005K8-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:34:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JX38F-000Om3-K9; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:34:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87hcfkdhqk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:43:31 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 485d3c07c5d69b41d1cad5b5ab8b481e X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2362 [Mar 5 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 11 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:91435 Archived-At: >> - selection with Shift-arrow keys > > I think this would be a good default. If someone is willing to make a > patch that refactors this code from cua-mode into simple.el, it would > be worth considering. Unfortunately, I see no way of implementing this in simple.el without using pre-command-hook and post-command-hook. It seems this can be implemented only in C in the function that reads characters. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/