From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:45:37 +0200 Message-ID: <480BB981.9030607@gmail.com> References: <004a01c8a1a0$7215cdd0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <878wz9btq8.fsf@jurta.org> <85fxthy4qp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87hcdxz9zr.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <20080420193750.GA3523@muc.de> <85hcdwuxz1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <480BB520.8010201@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208728030 26843 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2008 21:47:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Alan Mackenzie , drew.adams@oracle.com To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 20 23:47:43 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 4.50) id 1JnhNu-00015k-LR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:47:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnhNF-000706-AD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:47:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JnhMp-0006mG-7G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:46:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JnhMn-0006kD-HJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:46:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnhMn-0006k3-DD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:46:33 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JnhMc-0004Wf-MD; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:46:23 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-150-27.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.150.27]:59839 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JnhMa-00070E-58; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:46:20 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <480BB520.8010201@gnu.org> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080420-0, 2008-04-20), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.150.27 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JnhMa-00070E-58. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JnhMa-00070E-58 e376c57ee61aef983420c3b82c3018cd X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:95559 Archived-At: Jason Rumney wrote: > David Kastrup wrote: >> So the topic would to me appear rather new. And the right answer is >> "no"... It might be "not yet", but at the current point of time I have >> no idea what could be done to make a change not quite painful for all >> users (not just the old fogies). >> > > I think delete-selection-mode (and maybe even transient-mark-mode) > should be enabled only when the region was marked using shift movement > keys. > Setting the mark with C-SPC, moving the cursor and typing a self-insert > character should definitely not delete the region by default, even if > the region is active and highlighted. I think this is a good suggestion.