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: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 01:47:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536559361 29793 195.159.176.226 (10 Sep 2018 06:02:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 06:02:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 10 08:02:37 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 1fzFHR-0007eE-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 08:02:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzFJX-0003Ad-Or for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 02:04:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55092) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzFEz-00074K-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 02:00:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzF3B-0007AK-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 01:47:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzF34-00074V-AH; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 01:47:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fzF33-00034c-SK; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 01:47:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 9 Sep 2018 07:33:01 -0700 (PDT)) 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:229592 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. ]]] > I can't speak to its history - that may be where you copied it from. Your ignorance does not trump my memory. > But its design and its behavior fit just as well with selecting the > region in any way, not just with a mouse. It will operate regardless of how the region was selected, but the case it makes sense for is when the kind of input used for selection is something quite different from the kind of input used for the subsequent deletion. > The traditional Emacs interface is defined how? Do you mean > Emacs in a terminal? No faces? No mouse support? No text > properties? How far back do you go, to find it? These questions don't need to be answered. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)