From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tweaking t-m-m to make room for d-s-m Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:51:16 +0000 Message-ID: <20100325175116.GD2385@muc.de> References: <87sk7pzqsp.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <8739zps45s.fsf@mean.albasani.net> <87mxxw6c7b.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269548905 29860 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2010 20:28:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:28:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 25 21:28:21 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 1NutfA-0003ZV-Ks for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:28:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55919 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nutf9-0003dU-KM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:28:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NurgM-0008D8-At for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:21:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43274 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NurgK-0008B2-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:21:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NurV5-0007Ui-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:4905 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NurV5-0007UE-KJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:09:47 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 13011 invoked by uid 3782); 25 Mar 2010 17:43:05 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E22940.dip.t-dialin.net [217.226.41.64]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:43:03 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 8407 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Mar 2010 17:51:16 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 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:122671 Archived-At: Hi, Stefan, On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:27:50PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: [ .... ] > This C-x C-x issue can also be solved if we can come up with a short > key-binding that activates the region (in which case C-x C-x doesn't > need to activate the region). Notice that we also have a need for > a short key-binding to deactivate the region (one that has fewer > side-effects than C-g, e.g. can be embedded in a keyboard macro). > So maybe the answer to all this is to find a "short" key-binding that > can toggle the region's active status. How about C-x C-y bound to `toggle-active-region'? C-x C-y appears to be unused (at least, according to the Emacs manual), is very "close" to C-x C-x, and is non-difficult to type. > Stefan -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).