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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: FW: commands to select things of different kinds
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:42:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtzhy7bsp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004a01c8a1a0$7215cdd0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:06:25 -0700")

>> Not really; haven't thought much about it. As I said, 
>> I've been using
>> `C-M-SPC' for `mark-thing' (stealing from `mark-sexp') 
>> and `M-@' for
>> `cycle-thing-region' (stealing from `mark-word').
>> 
>> Those might be a good replacement, because I would expect people don't
>> use those two bindings very much.  But we have to ask people first.

I use C-M-SPC *very* often, typically just before C-y (together with
a variant of delete-selection-mode).
That doesn't mean it can't be changed, but its current functionality
should still be at least somewhat preserved.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-19  3:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-18 22:06 FW: commands to select things of different kinds Drew Adams
2008-04-19  3:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-04-19 20:11   ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-19 20:22     ` David Kastrup
2008-04-19 20:33       ` delete-selection-mode (was: FW: commands to select things of different kinds) Juri Linkov
2008-04-20 13:47         ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-19 23:18       ` FW: commands to select things of different kinds Richard Stallman
2008-04-19 23:43         ` delete-selection-mode (was: FW: commands to select things of different kinds) Juri Linkov
2008-04-20 10:10           ` Kim F. Storm
2008-04-20 14:57           ` delete-selection-mode Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-21  3:08             ` delete-selection-mode Richard Stallman
2008-04-21  3:59               ` delete-selection-mode Thomas Lord
2008-04-21 19:47                 ` delete-selection-mode Richard Stallman
2008-04-21 20:57                 ` delete-selection-mode Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-21 21:40                   ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-20 18:34           ` delete-selection-mode Chong Yidong
2008-04-20 19:25             ` delete-selection-mode Stefan Monnier
2008-04-20 19:31               ` delete-selection-mode Dan Nicolaescu
2008-04-20 19:48                 ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-20 20:28                   ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-20 20:32                     ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-20 20:53                       ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-20 21:20                         ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-20 21:42                           ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-21  5:37                             ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-21  6:18                               ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-21  6:24                                 ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-21  6:40                                   ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-21  9:36                                     ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-21 16:44                                       ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-21 17:47                                         ` delete-selection-mode Stefan Monnier
2008-04-21 18:12                                           ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-21 19:53                                             ` delete-selection-mode Jason Rumney
2008-04-21 20:02                                               ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-21 20:28                                                 ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-21  6:44                                 ` delete-selection-mode Drew Adams
2008-04-21 14:19                                 ` delete-selection-mode Stefan Monnier
2008-04-21 16:41                                   ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-21 17:01                                     ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-21 17:45                                       ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-21 17:58                                         ` delete-selection-mode Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-04-21 18:36                                           ` delete-selection-mode Paul R
2008-04-21 18:51                                             ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-21 19:04                                               ` delete-selection-mode Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-21 19:48                                                 ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-21 20:06                                                   ` delete-selection-mode Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-21 20:09                                                     ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-21 20:10                                                       ` delete-selection-mode Juanma Barranquero
2008-04-21 19:54                                               ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-21 19:56                                               ` delete-selection-mode Jason Rumney
2008-04-21 20:07                                                 ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-22  4:20                                                 ` delete-selection-mode Richard Stallman
2008-04-22  5:34                                                   ` delete-selection-mode Thomas Lord
2008-04-22  8:10                                                   ` delete-selection-mode Jason Rumney
2008-04-22  8:38                                                     ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-22 20:08                                                       ` delete-selection-mode Richard Stallman
2008-04-22 20:08                                                     ` delete-selection-mode Richard Stallman
2008-04-21 20:03                                               ` delete-selection-mode Paul R
2008-04-21 20:39                                                 ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-21 19:51                                             ` delete-selection-mode Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-04-21 20:06                                               ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-21 19:10                                     ` delete-selection-mode Robert J. Chassell
2008-04-21 19:47                                       ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-22 12:20                                         ` delete-selection-mode Robert J. Chassell
2008-04-22 12:34                                           ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-22 15:54                                             ` delete-selection-mode Robert J. Chassell
2008-04-22 13:29                                           ` delete-selection-mode David Reitter
2008-04-21 19:47                                 ` delete-selection-mode Richard Stallman
2008-04-20 21:06                   ` delete-selection-mode Drew Adams
2008-04-20 21:27                     ` delete-selection-mode Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-20 22:28                       ` delete-selection-mode Drew Adams
2008-04-20 19:32               ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-20 19:37           ` delete-selection-mode (was: FW: commands to select things of different kinds) Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-20 19:29             ` delete-selection-mode David Kastrup
2008-04-20 21:26               ` delete-selection-mode Jason Rumney
2008-04-20 21:45                 ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-21  0:10                   ` delete-selection-mode Drew Adams
2008-04-21  0:23                     ` delete-selection-mode Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-21  1:44                       ` delete-selection-mode Drew Adams
2008-04-21  0:28                     ` delete-selection-mode Jason Rumney
2008-04-21  1:44                       ` delete-selection-mode Drew Adams
2008-04-21  3:07           ` delete-selection-mode (was: FW: commands to select things of different kinds) Richard Stallman
2008-04-19 20:35     ` FW: commands to select things of different kinds Drew Adams
2008-04-19 22:54       ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-19 23:22         ` Drew Adams
2008-04-20 23:52           ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-21  0:13             ` Drew Adams
2008-04-21  1:03             ` Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-09 16:45 Drew Adams
2008-03-10  3:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-10  4:30   ` Drew Adams

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