Re: CUA mode cursor color

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:

> A few more comments about CUA mode:
> 
>   1. Using `M-x cua-mode' doesn't print a message in the mode-line,
>      whereas using the menu option does.  Why not always print a message
>      (many other mode toggles do, and they probably all should), and make
>      the menu option and `M-x cua-mode' exactly the same?

Will fix that.

> 
>   2. If you have transient-mark-mode enabled, turning on cua-mode and
>      then turning it off again leaves transient-mark-mode disabled; it
>      would be much better to leave it in whatever state it was in
>      originally.  I'm not sure the best way to implement this.

Good idea.  I'll do that.

> 
>   3. In the NEWS file, it says:
> 
>          With cua, the region can be set and extended using shifted
>          movement keys (like pc-selection-mode) and typed text replaces
>          the active region (like delete-selection-mode).  Do not enable
>          these modes with cua-mode.
> 

I have added code which disables these modes when cua-mode is enabled
and reenable them if cua-mode is disabled.

>      It would be nice if `pc-selection-mode' and `delete-selection-mode'
>      simply used the same code that cua-mode does, so that they are more
>      compatible (after all, it's not unlikely that a potential user of
>      CUA mode already has one or both of them enabled, and might not see
>      the warning in NEWS).

This is true -- but there are other packages in emacs which overlap
in functionality, so I guess it is ok to have these as separate
packages. 

But it should not be possible to enable them if cua-mode is enabled.

One way to accomplish thati is directly in the delete-selection-mode
and pc-selection-mode functions, but I don't know if that is really
possible with define-minor-mode.

Another possibility would be to defadvice those functions in cua-base,
but can you defadvice a function which isn't (auto)loaded yet [I
definitely don't want to load it just to defadvice it].

Any suggestions?

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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk