From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: select-active-regions, Emacs not X Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:45:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4C80B593.4080702@online.de> References: <4C7BA0A2.9030602@easy-emacs.de> <87sk1wdw0y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C7BE2FA.6080003@easy-emacs.de> <87fwxwxau7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C7BFC0A.1060806@online.de> <4C7D7813.3040806@harpegolden.net> <4C7F7D63.2010104@online.de> <87aao0uqfy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C7FD4A1.7040000@online.de> <4C801DA6.7060900@harpegolden.net> <4C80917E.3070609@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283503624 7968 80.91.229.12 (3 Sep 2010 08:47:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 08:47:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , David De La Harpe Golden , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 03 10:47:02 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrRvJ-0005uK-VR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:47:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OrRvJ-0002Kb-Hh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:47:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50371 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OrRtz-0001hg-M1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:45:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrRty-0008Nn-He for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:45:39 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:65129) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrRtw-0008NO-LX; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4db9ec37.pool.mediaWays.net [77.185.236.55]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LwVKN-1Or3hb2Wlj-018LNx; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:45:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:UeyUIPlZVExSVpm51bsH/FWZCgU6ggcFVk1VW2kdD5X cjziNvWbo154HYbRlG5rzqPLBcawULPxB6Ty5W0USYjBz4pyZX dojQJ1yS/8kdsU9EMFGHgxj4xfDebck0uGZ8hv1d3D8EmdHL7D ZmwC7hu8TTgRVi8b9iHTLM3yfOOI1rSA0MdqwGF6T2ZZ6/psjt YFKtfIbQ9fatZYUyapbarDvq7HZlM7H3h5z7YnmvSc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:129633 Archived-At: Am 03.09.2010 08:47, schrieb Miles Bader: > Andreas Röhler writes: > >> 24 works now so far after setting `select-active-regions' other than >> always' 23 works right out of the box, as these setting is nil. >> >> All I'm saying is: Probably you will get more bug reports, is the >> default-setting of `select-active-regions' remains `always'. >> > [It isn't `always' by default, it's `t'; but I guess that's what you mean.] > > Why do you think that? If it `select-active-regions' _isn't_ set to t, > then emacs will operate inconsistently, which will confuse some users > and potentially be a source of bug reports. > Well, the default delivered presently is "always" cus-start.el, line 201 (select-active-regions killing (choice (const :tag "always" t) (const :tag "only shift-selection or mouse-drag" only) (const :tag "off" nil)) "only" would work, so why not change it to? 23 comes with "nil" as default. See a unnecessary change of behaviour so far. > Since either setting will probably generate some bug reports, but the > current setting is only a problem when the user is running dubious apps > like klipper, it seems safer to keep the current defaults. > > -miles > >