From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:02:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20100318.140240.60357115.hanche@math.ntnu.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268935689 15035 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2010 18:08:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:08:09 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 18 19:08:04 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsK8a-0005d1-1C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:08:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48172 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsK8Z-0007Fi-7t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NsK3V-0000iQ-Ur for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:02:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59299 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsK3U-0000gu-L3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:02:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsK3R-00033U-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:02:48 -0400 Original-Received: from anne.math.ntnu.no ([129.241.15.150]:44808) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsK3R-00033C-0x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:02:45 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 14019 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2010 18:02:42 -0000 Original-Received: from gauss.math.ntnu.no (HELO localhost) (hanche@129.241.15.102) by anne.math.ntnu.no with ESMTPA; 18 Mar 2010 18:02:42 -0000 In-Reply-To: X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3.50 on Emacs 23.1.92 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:122190 Archived-At: + Lennart Borgman : > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > > Is this true even when the region has been activated by keyboard commands? > > If so, perhaps it is a bug.  Perhaps the feature should only apply when > > you make the region using the mouse. > > > I think it would be a very bad idea to introduce an invisible state > this way. (I agree with Klaus here - if I do not misunderstand him.) One way to solve that might be to use a different face for the region depending on whether it was mouse selected or keyboard generated. Maybe using a more scary (reddish?) colour if typing something is going to delete it. - Harald