From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: position on changing defaults? Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200803050637.m256bXL3008361@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87hcfkdhqk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87pru8enjx.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204998343 22096 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2008 17:45:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:45:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 08 18:46:10 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 1JY37K-0003LY-VP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:45:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY36m-0004RC-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:45:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY329-0007WA-Rm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY329-0007VR-6R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY328-0007VD-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JY328-0002hz-Ol for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:32 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JY328-0006oj-AI; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:32 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:07:13 -0500) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:91737 Archived-At: > It also gives you the rectangle highlighting (which I think most > users would agree is quite useful) combined with the ability to > use the normal region kill, copy and yank keys also for rectangles. > So there's no need to learn a different command set for rectangles! Actually, I think the rectangle support is good, although I'd like it to be a bit more like the normal region highlighting (e.g. same color, C-g should deactivate it, should be allowed to have 0-width). That is a separate feature, and a major change in Emacs's region mechanism. It may be good, but it calls for careful discussion and thought. We should not adopt such a change because it came along with some other feature.