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: AW: delete-selection-mode Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:35:12 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87tyse39qn.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87ocitw2dl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <201003130001.o2D01FFQ003489@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87vdd1yqe4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87eijjzrkd.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <874okf8dep.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <7697A57B1AD9104F993CDF6A5B69430C0A70E50872@CORPMAIL08.corp.capgemini.com> <4BA0CDF9.40707@online.de> <76682E4761EA432EB929E5E199B0F92A@us.oracle.com> <87wrxb57e1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268862681 5015 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2010 21:51:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:51:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 17 22:51:17 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 1Ns193-0004fU-1E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:51:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51124 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns192-0005TR-J9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns162-0002oN-VY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56326 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns160-0002la-Oi 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-0005v7-Gn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out2.starman.ee ([85.253.0.4]:49315 helo=mx2.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ns15v-0005td-1a; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:03 -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 DB8723F40DE; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:47:56 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: <87wrxb57e1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:51:02 +0100") 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:122116 Archived-At: >>> telling users ... about the advantage having delsel-mode off. >> >> There is none. > > You can set the mark, move somewhere else, type stuff there, and return > using C-x C-x, again typing stuff there, without destroying anything you > have written. > > The mark is, well, a _mark_. Something you can set temporarily easily, > later to return. Do you really use this with t-t-m? There is a simple principle wrt t-t-m: when the region is active then keys change their usual meaning. With delete-selection-mode this includes and other self-inserting keys in addition to existing keys that already have a special meaning in t-m-m. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/