From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christoph Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:00:39 -0600 Message-ID: <4C961787.3090907@gmail.com> References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4C94E03D.8090002@gmail.com> <87fwx699pc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83tylmyclx.fsf@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: dough.gmane.org 1284904856 22434 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2010 14:00:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , larsi@gnus.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 19 16:00:55 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 1OxKRq-0006PL-H0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:00:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49335 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxKRp-00034I-Qw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:00:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57547 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxKRh-00034D-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxKRg-0007nH-2Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:43340) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxKRg-0007nD-0D; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:00:44 -0400 Original-Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so1113495gxk.0 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:00:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2UC/FejCNGmMjt8HJlYNPIyz/ccoO/7ALGr09x3jr+w=; b=JkU3wXWmEDDbkgnF5p2CtfFlgj4p62NZXNE3Ym93sPNucqSjOHzzyyfJJJEUmRaYRR TBRwoLnjrEplfJw9qVmPNJfXMD3ZqK3oudlx8Gj5icZ7Vtma6WzjCelhYZtZ+974EWl0 X/EGfeHYli3msmdabA/w0zKZVzXa4+lUu+Yjc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SJsXNtTVWJxH6uh/SCGMGEshGfwL1yGkc4mQI8IgbzIcv36g8ylP9Fx8xOwty0EpEq RLo+40ubPbMYJWuQ6mtYcjjdotp0fANamEQL7j6jE1DwKBn5r312gpp2G3DiiK2ylhRQ O52zeuVFzENPXicvaAANQ3ohMbuxSBlISTLjk= Original-Received: by 10.150.53.3 with SMTP id b3mr8095351yba.372.1284904842777; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:00:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (97-122-97-123.hlrn.qwest.net [97.122.97.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u24sm7427898yba.9.2010.09.19.07.00.41 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:00:42 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100825 Thunderbird/3.1.3 In-Reply-To: <83tylmyclx.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:130484 Archived-At: On 9/18/2010 3:18 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> So I just switched off `transient-mark-mode', which is something I >> suspect most Emacs old-timers will be more comfortable with. > > Here's one such old-timer. Out of curiosity, from old-timer to new-timer, what advantages does the traditional Emacs behavior over transient-mark-mode? Christoph