From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Transient Mark Mode on by default Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:26:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87myopnj0l.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20080324200911.GA1310@muc.de> <001e01c88dee$34267e90$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <20080324210229.GB1310@muc.de> <47F128AA.6000905@emf.net> <87y77ybf3x.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207013208 18343 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2008 01:26:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 01:26:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Thomas Lord , M Jared Finder , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 01 03:27:19 2008 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 4.50) id 1JgVHS-0004ER-Rb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:27:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgVGq-0003Xv-OV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:26:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JgVGn-0003Xl-1r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:26:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JgVGj-0003XR-HK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:26:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgVGj-0003XO-C7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JgVGf-0002zC-LJ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:26:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (vpn-132-204-232-185.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.185]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m311QaMg002330; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:26:37 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0350CB40FA; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:26:22 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: -1.2 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered BAYES_01=-1.2 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:94082 Archived-At: > So all-in-all I really don't see why everybody is making a lot of > fuzz over making shift-select a 1st class emacs feature -- when > we could just as well just leave it to CUA mode to DTRT, but possibly > make a few enhancements to basic Emacs functionalities to assist CUA > mode to do its work. I'd tend to agree. Maybe we should make cua-mode more visible and be done with it. As for enhancements to basic Emacs functionality, that's of course possible, but I can't think of what that would look like. Stefan