From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: AW: delete-selection-mode Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:04:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20100317.200901.408057447.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <87sk7y2gh9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <9C7C186F-EDB5-4837-977B-1B9BA2695BD1@mit.edu> <20100318.141342.367418699.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <87pr31wg8y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268942763 10016 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2010 20:06:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:06:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Harald Hanche-Olsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 18 21:05:53 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 1NsLyF-00023i-Ei for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:05:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53210 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsLyC-0002Ew-Ks for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NsLy7-0002Aw-3t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:05:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58359 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsLy5-00027n-Rd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:05:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsLy4-0000r7-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:05:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f210.google.com ([209.85.220.210]:35115) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsLy4-0000qy-32 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:05:20 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so348070fxm.26 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:05:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=D5Zdu718JY2WxKQ/0lsz8HcfzCBdK58J7O2yLPROk/Y=; b=R2Z2xJRDSVcUGwdasEU1oaXzaR1IZVuWN0mBtQsU18/b5KAn3fkV9kuuXszOEzP4xk qYYt0BHqazOc5yZTqGQJrmzrmvz+P0MVLhkHWhhtcK2RO8ORvl3cvQ/y54a6z8/6lOma NDeCdzRpuUnagNdg2Dp5+EfGk9DNweaQfiUvg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=JpXmtl0IP/a4fD03uIUOPHW35NkUAocBDfR+dZU4guPWxDsJJNNnASfZq0BbLuO8nv wD8CTUHPcyKdNZfsUhPxlQi5QmswcG2viBNPcUMGsfanmDQdCWaShSTRqUxDrHO6bdmq 0aJo+rRG/Q5GL7pEO5gyp+6sG7oW/1gyhT3To= Original-Received: by 10.239.170.139 with SMTP id s11mr1488859hbe.99.1268942718215; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:05:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87pr31wg8y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:122205 Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Chong Yidong wrote: > > shift-selection is an inferior method of marking a region. That sounds strange. It is the common way for most editing environment for selecting text. > We provide > shift-selection because the keybindings don't conflict with the > canonical method, but it is a special case. Is not the main reason to provide it compatibility?