From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: select-active-regions, Emacs not X Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:00:40 +0900 Message-ID: References: <4C7BA0A2.9030602@easy-emacs.de> <87sk1wdw0y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C7BE2FA.6080003@easy-emacs.de> <87fwxwxau7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C7BFC0A.1060806@online.de> <4C7D7813.3040806@harpegolden.net> <4C7F7D63.2010104@online.de> <87aao0uqfy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C7FD4A1.7040000@online.de> <4C801DA6.7060900@harpegolden.net> <4C80917E.3070609@online.de> <4C80B593.4080702@online.de> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283504456 11260 80.91.229.12 (3 Sep 2010 09:00:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , David De La Harpe Golden To: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 03 11:00:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrS8i-0004ex-SN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:00:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39030 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OrS8i-0006E9-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39326 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OrS8b-0006E4-6u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrS8Z-0002DE-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.193]:43856) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrS8Y-0002CE-Uj; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate3.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.195]) by tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o8390eb7001671; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 18:00:40 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate3.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id o8390eI11640; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 18:00:40 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay41.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.9]) by vgate02.nec.co.jp (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o838xiGm029509; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 18:00:40 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay41.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay41.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 18:00:40 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.112.36] [10.114.112.36]) by relay41.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 18:00:40 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 0896952E1F9; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 18:00:40 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <4C80B593.4080702@online.de> ("Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hle?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?r=22's?= message of "Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:45:07 +0200") Original-Lines: 15 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129634 Archived-At: Andreas R=F6hler writes: > "only" would work, No, it wouldn't. The behavior in `only' mode is inconsistent, in a confusing way (it does have a basis of course, but that doesn't make its behavior intuitive for naive users). Some users (e.g., klipper users) may prefer that inconsistent behavior for various reasons, but that does not make it desirable in the default case. -Miles --=20 Saa, shall we dance? (from a dance-class advertisement)