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: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:33:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83k1nxvm5j.fsf@gnu.org> <87sh2ih0bp.fsf@fastmail.fm> <83o9d5q1bi.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536713268 6399 195.159.176.226 (12 Sep 2018 00:47:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 00:47:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 12 02:47:44 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 1fztJn-0001ZB-Na for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 02:47:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60132 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fztLt-0000yj-Jw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:49:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fztKf-0000gG-Fe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:48:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzt5r-0000oX-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:33:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54301) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fzt5n-0000jC-5B; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:33:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fzt5m-00026f-Mt; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:33:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:36:01 -0400) 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:229691 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. ]]] > DEL has been deleting the active region (in the default config) for > a while now. It affects me only by screwing me. It means, for instance, that after a search I can't edit what I searched for in the natural way. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)