From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ehud Karni" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why? Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 20:19:13 +0300 Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies Message-ID: <201106051719.p55HJDMZ023870@beta.mvs.co.il> References: <6F4054004B154CFB8E2753172D316C13@us.oracle.com> <4DE4F8D0.7010800@lanl.gov> <82y61l16bg.fsf@gmail.com> <87vcwo40tn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <834o48f6sa.fsf@gnu.org> <8762on3rvj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lixjdkae.fsf@gnu.org> <201106051651.p55GpANm013542@beta.mvs.co.il> <83oc2ccign.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307294379 20164 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2011 17:19:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 17:19:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: eliz@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 05 19:19:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QTGz9-0006QZ-4r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 19:19:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58409 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QTGz8-0001gL-7Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:19:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38910) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QTGyt-0001gE-Ni for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QTGys-0004ks-3w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:19:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.16.147.12] (port=57218 helo=unix.mvs.co.il) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QTGyr-0004hQ-LM; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:19:18 -0400 Original-Received: from beta.mvs.co.il (beta [10.253.0.3]) by unix.mvs.co.il (8.13.8/8.13.7) with ESMTP id p55HJEvt007236; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 20:19:14 +0300 Original-Received: from beta.mvs.co.il (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beta.mvs.co.il (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p55HJDGc023873; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 20:19:14 +0300 Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by beta.mvs.co.il (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id p55HJDMZ023870; Sun, 5 Jun 2011 20:19:13 +0300 In-reply-to: <83oc2ccign.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:10:32 +0300) X-Mailer: Emacs 21.3.1 rmail (send-msg 1.109) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 2) X-Received-From: 193.16.147.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140204 Archived-At: On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:10:32 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > I think I know why Microsoft (and following them, openoffice) did > > this non intuitive choice - They use shift+arrow to select text > > strings and the string must be in adjacent memory locations. > > So does Emacs. But Emacs does not select with the arrows, so it can work like Firefox strict visual. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7976-561 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D Better Safe Than Sorry