From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 12:29:27 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87ofh09xjq.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <200204050602.g3562Dl18586@aztec.santafe.edu> <87bscx7rlf.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <3791-Sat06Apr2002101927+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <873cy9nsom.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> Reply-To: Karl Eichwalder NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018104886 3959 127.0.0.1 (6 Apr 2002 14:54:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:54:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16traX-00011k-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 16:54:45 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16tro3-0007p6-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 17:08:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16trZr-0001aW-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 09:54:03 -0500 Original-Received: from dns.franken.de ([193.175.24.33] helo=elvis.franken.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16trX5-0001Y0-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 09:51:11 -0500 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16trWz-000527-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 16:51:05 +0200 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id 2A026A4453; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:29:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: John Wiegley In-Reply-To: <873cy9nsom.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> (John Wiegley's message of "Sat, 06 Apr 2002 01:21:29 -0700") Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2412 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2412 John Wiegley writes: >>> In the majority of cases, I think property copying is the wrong >>> thing to do. > >> FWIW, my impression is exactly the opposite. > > Well, I can't say much except that I've been bitten by copying them, > but haven't noticed the value of the flipside much. The same counts for me. Copying properties is annoying. Only hackers think regular users would like such a behavior. > Anyway, Emacs is all about flexibility, and not requiring a particular > modus just because "it's always done that". How about that > buffer-local variable? That's the minimum (IMO). Additionally I like to see a global toggle to disable copying properties if not explicitly required by the user. -- ke@suse.de (work) / keichwa@gmx.net (home): | http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ,__o Free Translation Project: | _-\_<, http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/ | (*)/'(*)