From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chad Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-x C-x (was: C-d deleting region considered harmful) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:46:48 -0700 Message-ID: <667921F3-BCEB-460D-AC82-72FDF5BE3939@mit.edu> References: <87eicrx1ls.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4C94E03D.8090002@gmail.com> <87fwx699pc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83tylmyclx.fsf@gnu.org> <4C961787.3090907@gmail.com> <878w2xsigj.fsf@gmail.com> <87zkvd5hwa.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285022826 1884 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2010 22:47:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:47:06 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs-Devel devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 21 00:47:05 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 1Oxp8X-0000lA-7K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:47:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48063 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oxp8W-0000Ft-M5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:47:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53480 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oxp8P-0000DR-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:46:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxp8O-0005np-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:46:53 -0400 Original-Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu ([18.7.68.36]:52368) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxp8O-0005nd-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:46:52 -0400 X-AuditID: 12074424-b7b2bae000005b3f-69-4c97e442973b Original-Received: from mailhub-auth-3.mit.edu ( [18.9.21.43]) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu (Symantec Brightmail Gateway) with SMTP id 17.AD.23359.244E79C4; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:46:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by mailhub-auth-3.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id o8KMkp0K027194 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:46:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.1.194] (c-71-231-113-235.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [71.231.113.235]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id o8KMkncl004226 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:46:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAARYGOcM= 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:130548 Archived-At: On Sep 20, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Now for the spinoff thread that keeps spinning off other ones: I'd be > willing to decouple C-x C-x from "(re)activate the region", but then we > need to find some other way to reactivate the region. > Suggestions welcome. Of course there's C-u C-x C-x, but I don't find it > very appealing (just like C-u C-x C-x doesn't sound too appealing to > people who currently want to exchange-mark-and-point without activating > the region). How about C-space C-x C-x (i.e. check if (eq mark omark))? I assume that C-x space is intentionally left unused due to some conflict or other. *Chad