From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: delete-selection-mode Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:50:40 -0700 Message-ID: <4EF0B6A160B049BDBB96214C94819E1A@us.oracle.com> References: <87ocitw2dl.fsf@stupidchicken.com><201003130001.o2D01FFQ003489@godzilla.ics.uci.edu><87vdd1yqe4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87eijjzrkd.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org><20100317143519.GB4381@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268970737 28643 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2010 03:52:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:52:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, dann@ics.uci.edu, 'Stefan Monnier' , acm@muc.de To: "'Miles Bader'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 19 04:52:12 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 1NsTFr-00010h-3A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:52:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36497 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsTFq-0002az-Gi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:52:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NsTFk-0002aO-3j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56184 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsTFi-0002Zd-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsTFf-0004l7-6Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:28184) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsTFb-0004ka-MM; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:51:55 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o2J3ppmW003476 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:52 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o2IKpc3r001655; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:51:40 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt010.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 99033871268970643; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:50:43 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.179.75) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:50:43 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcrHFdN+cAvnvOQjRJupV0QGfmkIKwAATGoQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A0B0204.4BA2F4D6.0140:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:122247 Archived-At: > I think having invisible differences between "types" of > activated region is simply confusing; this is especially > problematic given that the feature being discussed is > aimed at beginning users. > > Whether or not we turn on "type to delete region" by default or not, I > don't think we should be adding confusing hair to the user interface. > When it is enabled, it should act consistently for all types of active > region. I agree.