From: chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>
To: Emacs devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: draft for DEL key poll
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:56:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9D6D45-09E2-4F2A-AFAB-4320C7E752BF@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1R9EBG-0006BV-Fm@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Sep 29, 2011, at 3:49 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> If ou want to act on a single character, why did you activate the region?
>
> Perhaps because you wanted to go to the other side of it with C-x C-x,
> is the usual reason in my case.
>
> Another reason is, you want to do something to the region, so you mark
> it, but then you decide to first insert some text at the end of it.
So, only in situations where you explicitly don't want to activate the region?
Does it often happen that you change your mind about activating the
region? The C-x C-x case happens to me also, but rarely, and I find that
`C-x C-x C-x C-x' is comfortable enough in those cases.
*Chad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-29 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 164+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-26 3:57 Emacs pretest 24.0.90 Chong Yidong
2011-09-26 4:46 ` Leo
2011-09-26 18:43 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-26 23:21 ` Leo
2011-09-26 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 8:23 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-26 23:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-26 11:12 ` Neal Becker
2011-09-26 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 4:50 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-10-13 8:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 16:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 17:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 18:50 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-26 17:07 ` Bastien
2011-09-26 17:26 ` Rasmus
2011-09-26 21:12 ` draft for DEL key poll Richard Stallman
2011-09-26 21:38 ` Karl Fogel
2011-09-26 22:02 ` Kim F. Storm
2011-09-27 6:30 ` Stefan Reichör
2011-09-27 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-28 22:48 ` Kim F. Storm
2011-09-29 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-30 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-27 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-26 22:38 ` disable delete-selection-mode? (was: Re: draft for DEL key poll) chad
2011-09-26 23:10 ` disable delete-selection-mode? Glenn Morris
2011-09-27 16:34 ` disable delete-selection-mode? (was: Re: draft for DEL key poll) Richard Stallman
2011-09-27 0:08 ` draft for DEL key poll Juri Linkov
2011-09-27 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-27 0:52 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-27 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-27 18:49 ` James Cloos
2011-09-28 7:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-28 8:26 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-09-28 9:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-28 17:44 ` chad
2011-09-29 10:49 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-29 17:56 ` chad [this message]
2011-09-29 23:17 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2011-09-30 0:04 ` chad
2011-09-30 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-30 21:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-01 6:03 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-09-27 0:59 ` Chong Yidong
2011-09-27 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-26 23:00 ` Emacs pretest 24.0.90 Ota, Takaaki
2011-09-26 23:58 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-27 0:30 ` Ota, Takaaki
2011-09-30 3:42 ` Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete Richard Stallman
2011-09-30 8:56 ` Memnon Anon
2011-09-30 11:36 ` Jai Dayal
2011-09-30 15:17 ` Joel James Adamson
2011-10-01 12:54 ` Le Wang
2011-10-03 15:25 ` Joel James Adamson
2011-10-03 5:57 ` Ian Zimmerman
2011-10-03 9:21 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-10-03 15:14 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-03 20:57 ` Martyn Jago
2011-10-03 17:18 ` Ian Zimmerman
2011-10-03 18:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-10-03 7:33 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-10-03 13:18 ` "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete] ken
2011-10-03 13:24 ` Jai Dayal
2011-10-03 14:47 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-03 13:41 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-10-03 15:17 ` ken
2011-10-03 16:02 ` "like other editors" [ Richard Riley
2011-10-03 20:39 ` ken
2011-10-03 15:35 ` "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete] Andreas Röhler
2011-10-03 16:01 ` "like other editors" [ Richard Riley
2011-10-03 16:00 ` Richard Riley
2011-10-03 17:45 ` Ian Zimmerman
2011-10-03 19:27 ` Rasmus
2011-10-03 21:30 ` ken
2011-10-03 16:22 ` "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete] Jeremiah Dodds
2011-10-04 12:37 ` ken
2011-10-04 22:09 ` S Boucher
2011-10-04 12:44 ` ken
2011-10-04 18:40 ` Jeremiah Dodds
2011-10-04 20:02 ` ken
2011-10-04 20:19 ` Jeremiah Dodds
2011-10-04 21:42 ` ken
2011-10-04 21:54 ` Jai Dayal
2011-10-05 0:35 ` Jeremiah Dodds
2011-10-04 1:54 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <mailman.5071.1317713524.939.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-10-04 13:12 ` rusi
2011-10-04 17:27 ` S Boucher
2011-10-05 14:30 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-05 16:02 ` Rustom Mody
2011-10-05 17:26 ` MBR
2011-10-05 17:51 ` S Boucher
2011-10-04 4:28 ` Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete MBR
2011-10-04 7:33 ` suvayu ali
2011-10-04 14:08 ` MBR
2011-10-04 14:40 ` suvayu ali
2011-10-04 11:39 ` Marko Vojinovic
2011-10-04 13:31 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-04 11:47 ` Jonathan Groll
2011-10-04 13:33 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-04 16:17 ` Ian Zimmerman
2011-10-04 16:36 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-04 17:38 ` S Boucher
2011-10-04 18:29 ` Alan E. Davis
2011-10-04 19:16 ` S Boucher
2011-10-04 19:11 ` Johnny
2011-10-05 1:04 ` Ludwig, Mark
2011-10-06 12:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-10-06 19:15 ` Ken Goldman
2011-10-06 19:52 ` Marko Vojinovic
2011-10-18 8:09 ` Steinar Bang
2011-11-13 4:24 ` semperos
2011-10-01 0:22 ` Emacs pretest 24.0.90 Drew Adams
2011-10-03 16:11 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-03 22:56 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-03 23:42 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-03 23:43 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-12 10:18 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-12 10:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 11:28 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-12 11:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-12 12:07 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-12 12:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-12 12:27 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-12 12:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-12 12:31 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-12 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 19:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-12 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-12 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 12:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 12:52 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-12 13:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 14:21 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-12 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 11:27 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-12 13:48 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-12 14:02 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-13 1:54 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-13 3:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-13 4:04 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-13 16:15 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-13 22:54 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-15 1:32 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-13 14:17 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-18 17:15 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-18 23:34 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-18 23:55 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-13 14:28 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-13 14:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-07 19:25 ` nabil-82
2011-10-08 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-08 16:38 ` nabil-82
2011-10-09 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-09 13:02 ` nabil-82
2011-10-09 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 1:39 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-10-12 13:04 ` nabil-82
2011-10-12 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 16:58 ` nabil-82
2011-10-13 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-08 21:01 ` Glenn Morris
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