Re: Shift selection using interactive spec

[Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> I've *never* heard a Windows user complain about the region
> doing the wrong thing. 
>   

> XEmacs implements the "active flag for top of mark stack" model.
>   


I think you are are prematurely self-congratulatory.  

If XEmacs were really successful in this area, especially
given the Lucid ancestry, then Eclipse would not exist
in its present form.  (Rather, it would be "eclipse.el".)





> If you want to do something subtler, Tom, I think a sample
> implementation really needs to be provided and exercised thoroughly,
> because the t-m-m model just plain ain't broke in best current
> practice.
>
>   

I have a stack of 2 big things on my "put up or shut up" debt list
at just this moment and I'm not adding this thing as a third.

But this thing... how shift-select should work... it's a much simpler
problem than the other two and I think I can fix it just by describing
the solution.   Yeah, I'm crazy optimistic that way, sometimes, in some
contexts.

-t