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: Shift-movement selection Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:06:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871w6ounk0.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87ablacdxt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87skyzzeng.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87fxuyobxt.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <20080311224232.GB4420@muc.de> <87fxuwos3s.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <47D81544.9050408@emf.net> <47D85273.6010500@emf.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205370432 19805 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2008 01:07:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, storm@cua.dk, acm@muc.de, miles@gnu.org To: Thomas Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 02:07:38 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 1JZbuh-0005Yw-1K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:07:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZbu8-00027d-7M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:06:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZbtm-000207-C0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:06:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZbtk-0001zO-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:06:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZbtk-0001zI-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:06:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZbtk-00056K-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:06:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JZbth-0001qs-Ht; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:06:17 -0400 In-reply-to: <47D85273.6010500@emf.net> (message from Thomas Lord on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:00:19 -0700) 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:92345 Archived-At: Now I understand your proposal. I don't see how it would handle the issue of making non-shift movement commands deactivate the mark, but maybe it can be made to do that. However, I tend to think that the use of the special character in `interactive' to indicate these commands is a cleaner method overall.