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: Shift-movement selection Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:38:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200803050637.m256bXL3008361@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87hcfkdhqk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87d4q8sq9c.fsf@jurta.org> <8763w0n393.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <871w6ounk0.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> <87ablacdxt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87skyzzeng.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205159943 14708 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2008 14:39:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:39:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 10 15:39:27 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 1JYj9w-00036b-IA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:39:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYj9O-0004ro-C1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYj9K-0004p5-3R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:38:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYj9I-0004ms-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:38:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYj9I-0004mj-EN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:38:44 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYj9A-0007vS-RV; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:38:36 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmgCAE7k1EfO+J2CdGdsb2JhbACQfgEwmBCBBw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,474,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="15790138" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 10 Mar 2008 10:38:36 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.157.130]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id QRW03236; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:38:36 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CB467805A; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:38:35 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:11:53 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:92036 Archived-At: >>> So to make it work "correctly", you need to modify all commands in >>> emacs! [yikes!] >> Most commands already deactivate the mark. So which ones would be left? > Anything that doesn't modify the buffer -- e.g. all movement commands. Supposedly these will be changed to use the new function, so they will explicitly deactivate the mark if the mark was activated with shift and the movement is then performed without the shift. So again, which ones would be left? Stefan