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: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 23:14:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83k1nxvm5j.fsf@gnu.org>> <87sh2ih0bp.fsf@fastmail.fm>> <770f48a8-664a-40ae-8e03-19f6aad248b6@default>> <20180910181615.GA4829@ACM>> > <874lev3bq4.fsf@toy.adminart.net>> <20180912131602.GA5582@ACM>> <87d0tihxzw.fsf@toy.adminart.net>> <20180913174640.GB4019@ACM>> <8736udkuit.fsf@toy.adminart.net>> <20180914104833.GA4103@ACM>> > <83k1nojgia.fsf@gnu.org>> <7bed1f76-5bae-44cb-9b22-206b513043be@default>> <83d0tfkj77.fsf@gnu.org>> <1c393214-c186-4760-9a37-e0450c946446@default> <83zhwji4hx.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 1537067540 504 195.159.176.226 (16 Sep 2018 03:12:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 03:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 16 05:12:15 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 1g1NTr-0008RV-Ix for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 05:12:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57495 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1NVx-0006Yj-Ti for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 23:14:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49585) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1NVp-0006Yb-BT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 23:14:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1NVo-0005NM-5r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 23:14:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50703) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1NVh-00054z-FQ; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 23:14:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g1NVh-0007Kb-1O; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 23:14:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:02:54 -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:229835 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. ]]] > In both cases, if that's not what the user intended, an important > question is: why was the region active before those commands? It could be because the user typed C-SPC to mark one end of the region. Or because of C-x C-x. There are commends for which an active region changes the behavior. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)