From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode as default Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2018 02:08:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83k1nxvm5j.fsf@gnu.org> <877ejxsm18.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <874lf0oul4.fsf@toy.adminart.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536474261 24453 195.159.176.226 (9 Sep 2018 06:24:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 06:24:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hw@adminart.net, cpitclaudel@gmail.com, lokedhs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 09 08:24:16 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fyt8o-0006Gx-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 08:24:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46240 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fytAv-0001kj-4v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 02:26:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47211) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyt7E-00088h-Pg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 02:22:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fystd-0004d1-0i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 02:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33572) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fystQ-0004Iq-Hq; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 02:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fystQ-0006nx-7c; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 02:08:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: (charles@aurox.ch) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229545 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > How come it wasn't distinguished between the concept of a region being > > active and the visual aid of marking a region? > Separating these two concepts could be useful, but Emacs would then > need some other way of showing the user that a region is active, like > a mode line indicator. We could have another minor mode to control whether Backspace deletes an active region. That would solve the problem for me. We would still have the issue of what the default should be. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)