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 15:11:21 -0600 Message-ID: <4C967C79.2010001@gmail.com> References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4C94E03D.8090002@gmail.com> <87fwx699pc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83tylmyclx.fsf@gnu.org> <4C961787.3090907@gmail.com> 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 1284930701 23577 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2010 21:11:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:11:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 19 23:11:40 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 1OxRAc-0006kv-QD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:11:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57343 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxRAc-0007b9-43 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:11:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52514 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxRAW-0007ap-02 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:11:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxRAV-0001zv-5y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:11:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:36613) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxRAU-0001ze-3T; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:11:26 -0400 Original-Received: by ywl5 with SMTP id 5so1843445ywl.0 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:11:25 -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=44RoAqYlYeiw7HRCe8uwIUoS2tABErL0+peJYWVIBfc=; b=joXDgJiVz1k7482GkTA/ZDyvrTLvrbZanVJc9nCAsS/YLH+VMU2pasGogwRROyGlU4 zBfQnAE1xm6RsW5WwqXMH4ir8uAwdtBaay1zSBiDpPV65lDWXotH9ruBEYbVuF+lKolN wWJamh86G1p01YS1+iOMgz0Dmw0VSQhH9G0oE= 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=vxhB7qv+kyRC4GitwEG6Rd52OlYGdPsJzCU0Ts3GdB7mwBmX/k9tEdyd+umv3kTwAK IlvCSPi+Kb9o0rEp6FQuEvhB6Ge4XQAC4MtL1+CeEi2MvWMvvE86n/FlQPqJuSryoKbD 0RpGiyXUft9UAXbtDPEgT907kOz1tNT4uN8ZM= Original-Received: by 10.151.107.6 with SMTP id j6mr1414421ybm.74.1284930685404; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (97-122-97-123.hlrn.qwest.net [97.122.97.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e7sm2584908ybe.4.2010.09.19.14.11.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:11:24 -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: 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:130504 Archived-At: On 9/19/2010 8:12 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I use "C-x C-x" _a_lot_ as a kind of one-time bookmark (augmented by > "C-u C-SPC" when necessary), to jump quickly between two spots in a > buffer. With this paradigm, the region is not really "region", it's > just a portion of text between 2 loci of interest. Therefore, it > drives my nuts that Emacs paints the text in color each time I type > "C-x C-x", because I have no intention of marking the region, I just > want to jump. I see the problem. Can't say I ever used C-x C-x like that. But that sounds like a pretty useful thing. :) Thanks, Christoph