From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kelly Dean Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proposal to change cursor appearance to indicate region activation Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:22:21 +0000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422091422 25839 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2015 09:23:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:23:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 24 10:23:38 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YEwwJ-0002aB-Qi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:23:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34421 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEwwI-0006y8-V5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 04:23:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50444) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEwwF-0006xB-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 04:23:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEwwC-0004Tb-11 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 04:23:31 -0500 Original-Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:c:538::195]:54699) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEwwB-0004TR-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 04:23:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mfilter34-d.gandi.net (mfilter34-d.gandi.net [217.70.178.165]) by relay3-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DBCA80B6; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:23:26 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mfilter34-d.gandi.net Original-Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.195]) by mfilter34-d.gandi.net (mfilter34-d.gandi.net [10.0.15.180]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LWKlYfzSzVcN; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:23:25 +0100 (CET) X-Originating-IP: 66.220.3.179 Original-Received: from localhost (gm179.geneticmail.com [66.220.3.179]) (Authenticated sender: kelly@prtime.org) by relay3-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 586C8A80AD; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:23:22 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4b98:c:538::195 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:181719 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > Having it nil by default makes it basically useless: there are already > packages (such as cursor-chg.el) which provided that kind > of functionality. There are already other modes that are part of Emacs but nil by default. Some that I use include electric-pair, show-paren, winner, delete-selection, whitespace, savehist, and desktop-save. And a couple days ago you wrote: > Two options: > - keep the default as nil. > - change the code to only modify the cursor-type if it hasn't been changed.