From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:48:28 +0900 Message-ID: <87eijipcoz.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <87ocitw2dl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <201003130001.o2D01FFQ003489@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87vdd1yqe4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87eijjzrkd.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <20100317143519.GB4381@muc.de> <8739zy68n2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87zl261yta.fsf@telefonica.net> <87sk7y4rdv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268880528 22012 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2010 02:48:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:48:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 18 03:48:42 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 1Ns5mq-0005wY-DU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:48:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50046 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns5mp-0006QJ-Ps for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:48:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns5mk-0006Ol-Uq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:48:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47928 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns5mj-0006NW-T6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:48:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ns5mi-00053G-OO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:48:33 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp12.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.74]:57589) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ns5mg-000526-D8; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.231.253.174.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.253.174] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp12.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1Ns5mf-0006Nq-HL; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:48:29 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F3609DF23; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:48:28 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:25:58 -0400") Original-Lines: 18 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com 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:122133 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > Compared to things like Eclipse, I see the following significant > advantages: > > - does not impose a particular workflow or combination of tools. Yeah, that's what drives me crazy about Eclipse... it has some very powerful features (and even a vaguely usable Emacs-key-bindings mode), but it feels so _rigid_... :( -Miles -- The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic. [James Marston Fitch, New York Times, 1 May 1960]