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From: Tak Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>
Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 19:56:38 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020406.195638.60851661.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <shy9g0fznp.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de>

Sat, 06 Apr 2002 20:30:18 +0200: Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> wrote:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
> > I wonder what do DTP and word processing programs do?  I guess if you
> > copy an italic word from one place to another it stays italic.
> 
> Yes and that's plain wrong--as a user I sufferd by this behavior.  If
> you copy a word from a (bold) title line you don't want to stay the
> word bold within your running text.
> 
> Only hackers believe that that's a feature.

I think non-hackers perceive things in WYSIWYG way, meaning if they
copy bold test they expect to paste bold text as well.  Only hackers
perceive text as data structure consisting of two parts, essential
character code portion and optional property (attribute) portion.

-Tak

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-07  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-03 23:23 Question about copy-region-as-kill John Wiegley
2002-04-05  6:02 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-05 21:39   ` John Wiegley
2002-04-06  7:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-06  8:21       ` John Wiegley
2002-04-06 10:29         ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-04-06 17:46           ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-06 18:05             ` Alex Schroeder
2002-04-07 18:50               ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-08  1:23                 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-06 18:30             ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-04-06 23:03               ` Alan Shutko
2002-04-07  7:42                 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-04-08 15:53                   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-08 21:21                     ` John Wiegley
2002-04-09  9:31                       ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-09 11:03                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-09 10:23                           ` Miles Bader
2002-04-09 13:05                             ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-09 13:24                               ` Miles Bader
2002-04-09 14:42                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-10 14:24                           ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-10 14:24                         ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-10 16:27                           ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-11 14:53                             ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-11 16:27                               ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-12 19:49                                 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-12 10:36                               ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-04-09 15:26                       ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-09 21:28                         ` John Wiegley
2002-04-07  3:56               ` Tak Ota [this message]
2002-04-06 15:05         ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-06 17:32     ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-06 20:38       ` John Wiegley
2002-04-06 23:03         ` Alex Schroeder
2002-04-07  0:12           ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07  0:56             ` Miles Bader
2002-04-07  2:53               ` John Wiegley
2002-04-07  4:44                 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07  4:58                   ` Miles Bader
2002-04-07  5:32                     ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07  6:53                       ` Miles Bader
2002-04-07  7:46                         ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07  8:18                           ` Alex Schroeder
2002-04-07 12:20                           ` Miles Bader
2002-04-08  3:09                             ` Colin Walters
2002-04-08  6:18                               ` Miles Bader
2002-04-09 22:04                                 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-10 20:17                                   ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-09 12:07                               ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-09 22:12                                 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07  6:36                   ` John Wiegley
2002-04-07  6:55                     ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 23:42                   ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-08  3:14                     ` Colin Walters
2002-04-09 12:07                       ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-09 22:06                         ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07  4:41               ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07  4:58                 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-07  5:43                   ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 10:52         ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-06 17:43     ` Kai Großjohann

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