From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode as default Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:23:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83k1nxvm5j.fsf@gnu.org> <87sh2ih0bp.fsf@fastmail.fm> <83o9d5q1bi.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536758489 11413 195.159.176.226 (12 Sep 2018 13:21:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:21:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 12 15:21:24 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g055A-0002rR-JA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 15:21:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36290 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g057G-0002yu-U4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41165) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0577-0002xn-R1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:23:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0577-0005NI-8l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:23:25 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:50836) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0571-0005Jp-Ra; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w8CDNHLF007429; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:23:17 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 3F5796A61D; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:23:17 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:33:14 -0400") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6372=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6372> : inlines <6871> : streams <1798237> : uri <2708953> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229700 Archived-At: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > DEL has been deleting the active region (in the default config) for > > a while now. > > It affects me only by screwing me. It means, for instance, that after > a search I can't edit what I searched for in the natural way. Not sure I understand how the active region relates to what you can do after a search. Stefan