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: delete-selection-mode Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:46:31 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87r5ni39q4.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87ocitw2dl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <201003130001.o2D01FFQ003489@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87vdd1yqe4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87eijjzrkd.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 1268862624 4782 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2010 21:50:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:50:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 17 22:50:19 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 1Ns187-0004FK-HM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:50:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50612 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns186-0004jF-Uv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns162-0002nw-M7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56322 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns160-0002lN-Iz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ns15z-0005ur-1j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out2.starman.ee ([85.253.0.4]:49325 helo=mx2.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ns15y-0005ua-9X; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:06 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx2.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (85.253.49.181.cable.starman.ee [85.253.49.181]) by mx2.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA8753F40E6; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:47:57 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:18:52 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:122115 Archived-At: >> What they are asking for is delete-selection-mode, >> but they can't find it in the documentation because >> the feature name says nothing to beginners, > > Then regardless of what the default is, the documentation should be > improved (eg by index entries) so that people _can_ find it. > > This question is in the FAQ, by the way. The problem is that people won't know what index entries to search. It's the fundamental feature in other editors that it has no special name. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/