From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: hw <hw@adminart.net>
Cc: spacibba@aol.com, joostkremers@fastmail.fm, npostavs@gmail.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode as default
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 14:14:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180916141457.GB4579@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7oh4mdm.fsf@toy.adminart.net>
Hello, hw.
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 15:48:10 +0200, hw wrote:
> Oh, I see what you mean!
> Emacs has point and (the end of) the region (selection) always entangled
> with no way to separate them or to disable the region.
You want to disable a portion of your buffer? That doesn't make any
sense.
> That is what I dislike so much, and it causes all kinds of issues.
I do wish you could come to understand what the region is. It would save
all sorts of problems for you. The region is not active, never being any
sort of agent, and its existence is determined only by commands which
operate on it. Point exists and mark exists. When you run a command
with "-region" in its name, it operates on the buffer between point and
mark. When you're not running such a command, the region has no
significance. That's all.
You are attributing problems to the region which really aren't there. A
section of your buffer is not "always entangled with no way to separate
[it]". If you don't want to do anything to the region, don't do it. And
if you do something to it by mistake, which won't happen often, use undo.
> The secondary selection doesn't have all these problems, so it's a good
> example.
> Can we have a mode or something in which there is no association between
> point and the end of the region? Or can I just configure that
> association away?
Please learn what the region is. It is just a portion of your buffer.
You cannot have point dissociated from some part of your buffer. That
doesn't make any sense.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-16 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 253+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 0:32 delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Noam Postavsky
2018-09-07 0:35 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 9:18 ` delete-selection-mode as default hw
2018-09-07 13:16 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-07 13:28 ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-07 13:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-09-07 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 14:16 ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-07 16:02 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 17:08 ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-07 20:28 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2018-09-07 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 23:11 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-09 5:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 16:16 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-09 14:22 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-16 23:34 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-17 0:36 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-17 22:37 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-17 23:12 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-17 23:21 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-17 23:36 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-19 6:53 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2018-09-19 22:44 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-07 14:39 ` hw
2018-09-07 16:27 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-08 17:37 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-09 5:15 ` hw
2018-09-08 5:14 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-08 11:32 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-09-08 14:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 15:52 ` hw
2018-09-08 19:31 ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-09 3:19 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-09 6:08 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-09 14:48 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 11:50 ` hw
2018-09-11 4:25 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10 7:52 ` hw
2018-09-10 11:52 ` visual-region-mode? (was: delete-selection-mode as default) hw
2018-09-10 20:02 ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-11 5:43 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-11 18:25 ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-12 5:12 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-12 6:59 ` visual-region-mode? Andreas Schwab
2018-09-12 7:12 ` visual-region-mode? Yuri Khan
2018-09-12 7:44 ` visual-region-mode? Andreas Schwab
2018-09-12 18:31 ` visual-region-mode? (was: delete-selection-mode as default) Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-16 22:55 ` visual-region-mode? Juri Linkov
2018-09-11 21:56 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-12 19:47 ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-12 20:40 ` visual-region-mode? Drew Adams
2018-09-12 20:50 ` visual-region-mode? Juri Linkov
2018-09-13 4:01 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-13 4:00 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-13 17:22 ` visual-region-mode? Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-13 20:08 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-13 20:42 ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-15 19:21 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-16 19:31 ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-17 20:36 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-17 22:24 ` visual-region-mode? Drew Adams
2018-09-17 23:11 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-18 0:11 ` visual-region-mode? Juri Linkov
2018-09-18 12:32 ` visual-region-mode? Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 19:22 ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-19 1:45 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-19 19:22 ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-19 20:04 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-20 18:14 ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-21 20:28 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-24 17:42 ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-24 18:07 ` visual-region-mode? Yuri Khan
2018-09-29 11:18 ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-10-03 13:13 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-10-04 20:20 ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-26 22:00 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-27 21:01 ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-10-03 13:59 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-24 20:24 ` visual-region-mode? Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-26 18:12 ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-26 22:45 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-27 17:26 ` visual-region-mode? Alan Mackenzie
2018-10-03 15:43 ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-10-03 17:03 ` visual-region-mode? Alan Mackenzie
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2018-09-24 20:39 ` visual-region-mode? Drew Adams
2018-09-12 20:27 ` visual-region-mode? Juri Linkov
2018-09-08 18:16 ` delete-selection-mode as default Dmitry Gutov
2018-09-09 7:42 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-09-09 14:25 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-07 9:40 ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Phil Sainty
2018-09-07 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 11:37 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-08 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 15:35 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 16:16 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-07 19:01 ` tomas
2018-09-07 19:23 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 20:28 ` tomas
2018-09-08 23:19 ` delete-selection-mode as default Juri Linkov
2018-09-09 8:02 ` tomas
2018-09-07 20:33 ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Noam Postavsky
2018-09-07 21:31 ` tomas
2018-09-10 8:01 ` delete-selection-mode as default Robert Pluim
2018-09-10 8:09 ` tomas
2018-09-09 13:45 ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-09 14:22 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-09 15:12 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 11:42 ` delete-selection-mode as default Filipp Gunbin
2018-09-09 20:39 ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Joost Kremers
2018-09-09 22:24 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 3:08 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-10 3:17 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 5:15 ` Bingo
2018-09-10 13:34 ` delete-selection-mode as default Stefan Monnier
2018-09-10 8:46 ` hw
2018-09-10 18:16 ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-10 18:35 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-10 19:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-10 20:36 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-11 22:34 ` delete-selection-mode as default hw
2018-09-12 0:04 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-13 2:58 ` hw
2018-09-12 13:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-12 13:41 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-12 14:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-12 15:51 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-12 15:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-12 16:36 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-13 3:59 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-09-13 4:16 ` hw
2018-09-13 17:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-13 20:32 ` hw
2018-09-14 10:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-14 13:41 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-14 14:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-14 15:37 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-14 14:29 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-14 14:32 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-14 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-14 15:23 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-14 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-15 21:20 ` hw
2018-09-15 22:37 ` hw
2018-09-16 0:22 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-16 3:15 ` hw
2018-09-16 3:34 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-16 13:48 ` hw
2018-09-16 14:14 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2018-09-17 21:00 ` hw
2018-09-16 15:28 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-16 16:30 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-16 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-16 18:20 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-16 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-16 20:17 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-17 21:22 ` hw
2018-09-18 12:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 23:45 ` hw
2018-09-19 5:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-19 20:09 ` hw
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2018-09-16 18:04 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-16 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-09-16 20:14 ` Drew Adams
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2018-09-16 20:29 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-17 5:28 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-16 8:06 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-16 13:36 ` hw
2018-09-16 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-17 22:11 ` hw
2018-09-17 22:44 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-17 23:30 ` hw
2018-09-18 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 13:14 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-18 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 15:28 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-18 15:37 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-18 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 16:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-20 1:46 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-20 5:45 ` Yuri Khan
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2018-09-18 17:42 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-18 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 19:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-14 15:15 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-09-14 14:33 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-15 21:59 ` hw
2018-09-15 20:31 ` hw
2018-09-11 23:30 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-12 0:13 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 7:05 ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 13:41 ` delete-selection-mode as default Stefan Monnier
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2018-09-11 4:22 ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Richard Stallman
2018-09-11 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-12 0:33 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-11 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-12 0:33 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-12 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-11 12:36 ` delete-selection-mode as default Stefan Monnier
2018-09-11 23:09 ` hw
2018-09-12 0:33 ` Richard Stallman
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2018-09-14 20:57 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-15 7:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-15 10:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-15 10:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-15 19:44 ` Ergus
2018-09-15 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-16 0:29 ` Ergus
2018-09-16 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-16 10:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
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2018-09-17 2:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-17 5:46 ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-09-17 18:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-17 19:57 ` hw
2018-09-17 22:56 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-15 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-15 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-15 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-15 20:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-16 3:14 ` Richard Stallman
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2018-09-17 0:55 ` Drew Adams
2018-10-03 0:22 ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-03 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 5:13 ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Richard Stallman
2018-09-08 14:54 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-09 1:23 ` Ergus
2018-09-08 17:25 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-08 18:08 ` delete-selection-mode as default Stefan Monnier
2018-09-09 6:08 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-09 7:56 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-09 14:33 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 5:47 ` Richard Stallman
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2018-09-08 3:46 delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Bingo
2018-09-08 15:03 ` delete-selection-mode as default hw
2018-09-08 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 23:27 ` hw
2018-09-09 1:15 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-09 3:33 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-09 17:41 ` hw
2018-09-08 16:31 ` Bingo
2018-09-10 2:33 ` hw
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