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: draft for DEL key poll Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:49:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87litcvtu2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87r532n6wr.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20110928075430.GA2337@acm.acm> <1508D161-CE02-4EA8-B304-37A409A8F175@mit.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317293393 6459 80.91.229.12 (29 Sep 2011 10:49:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:49:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: chad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 29 12:49:47 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R9EBU-0007r9-3e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:49:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47591 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9EBT-0002xQ-5c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:49:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48216) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9EBM-0002x5-O8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:49:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9EBI-0005wd-Bh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:33274) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9EBI-0005wY-65 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:49:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9EBG-0006BV-Fm; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:49:30 -0400 In-reply-to: <1508D161-CE02-4EA8-B304-37A409A8F175@mit.edu> (message from chad on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:44:23 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144471 Archived-At: If ou want to act on a single character, why did you activate the region? Perhaps because you wanted to go to the other side of it with C-x C-x, is the usual reason in my case. Another reason is, you want to do something to the region, so you mark it, but then you decide to first insert some text at the end of it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/