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: Why was `transient-mark-mode' turned off for `delete-selection-mode'? Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:31:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <60d75d3a-d04c-4394-800b-60b65fafdb11@default> <2ffbe01d-ef46-4467-83a6-4714a192ba8b@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409866327 14401 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2014 21:32:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:32:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 04 23:32:00 2014 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 1XPedL-0007n1-JC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 23:31:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54244 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPedL-0007yM-0Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38795) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPecz-0007vQ-Il for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:31:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPecq-0001hs-Ha for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:31:37 -0400 Original-Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:60636) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XPecq-0001hl-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:31:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([24.201.170.218]) by VL-VM-MR006.ip.videotron.ca (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-22.01 64bit (built Apr 21 2011)) with ESMTP id <0NBE000XPBSFKM30@VL-VM-MR006.ip.videotron.ca> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:31:27 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C4EF0660C4; Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:31:28 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <2ffbe01d-ef46-4467-83a6-4714a192ba8b@default> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 24.201.245.36 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:174021 Archived-At: >> > Why should `delete-selection-mode' no longer enable >> > transient-mark-mode'? >> The question is the reverse: why should delete-selection-mode enable >> transient-mark-mode? > Why is that the question, for a proposed change to Emacs? Because you're advocating for delete-selection-mode to enable transient-mark-mode, so it seems quite relevant to ask why you want delete-selection-mode to enable transient-mark-mode. E.g. give us a concrete situation where that would be useful. Stefan