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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: hw <hw@adminart.net>
Cc: spacibba@aol.com, joostkremers@fastmail.fm, npostavs@gmail.com,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, yurivkhan@gmail.com, acm@muc.de,
	drew.adams@oracle.com, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode as default
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 19:59:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831s9tidjc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7oh4mdm.fsf@toy.adminart.net> (message from hw on Sun, 16 Sep 2018 15:48:10 +0200)

> From: hw <hw@adminart.net>
> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 15:48:10 +0200
> Cc: spacibba@aol.com, joostkremers@fastmail.fm, npostavs@gmail.com,
> 	emacs-devel@gnu.org, Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>, acm@muc.de,
> 	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
> 
> Emacs has point and (the end of) the region (selection) always entangled
> with no way to separate them or to disable the region.  That is what I
> dislike so much, and it causes all kinds of issues.

It is also why it is so convenient to define the region without using
the mouse.  With the current way of defining region, you just go to
the other end, and you are immediately ready to invoke commands that
operate on the region.  How do you do that if point is not on one of
the edges of the region, except by dragging the mouse?

> The secondary selection doesn't have all these problems, so it's a good
> example.

The secondary selection can only be defined by mouse gestures.  And it
is not supported by any commands except those which interact with X
selections.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-16 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 253+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-07  0:32 delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Noam Postavsky
2018-09-07  0:35 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07  6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07  9:18   ` delete-selection-mode as default hw
2018-09-07 13:16     ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-07 13:28       ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-07 13:47         ` Dmitry Gutov
2018-09-07 13:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 14:16           ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-07 16:02             ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 17:08               ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-07 20:28                 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2018-09-07 14:22           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 23:11             ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-09  5:49               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 16:16                 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-09 14:22               ` Drew Adams
2018-09-16 23:34             ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-17  0:36               ` Drew Adams
2018-09-17 22:37                 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-17 23:12                   ` Drew Adams
2018-09-17 23:21                     ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-17 23:36                       ` Drew Adams
2018-09-19  6:53                   ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2018-09-19 22:44                     ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-07 14:39       ` hw
2018-09-07 16:27         ` Drew Adams
2018-09-08 17:37         ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-09  5:15           ` hw
2018-09-08  5:14       ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-08 11:32         ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-09-08 14:01           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 15:52           ` hw
2018-09-08 19:31             ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-09  3:19               ` Drew Adams
2018-09-09  6:08               ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-09 14:48                 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 11:50                   ` hw
2018-09-11  4:25                     ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-10  7:52                 ` hw
2018-09-10 11:52               ` visual-region-mode? (was: delete-selection-mode as default) hw
2018-09-10 20:02                 ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-11  5:43                   ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-11 18:25                     ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-12  5:12                       ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-12  6:59                         ` visual-region-mode? Andreas Schwab
2018-09-12  7:12                           ` visual-region-mode? Yuri Khan
2018-09-12  7:44                             ` visual-region-mode? Andreas Schwab
2018-09-12 18:31                         ` visual-region-mode? (was: delete-selection-mode as default) Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-16 22:55                     ` visual-region-mode? Juri Linkov
2018-09-11 21:56                   ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-12 19:47                     ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-12 20:40                       ` visual-region-mode? Drew Adams
2018-09-12 20:50                       ` visual-region-mode? Juri Linkov
2018-09-13  4:01                         ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-13  4:00                       ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-13 17:22                         ` visual-region-mode? Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-13 20:08                           ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-13 20:42                         ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-15 19:21                           ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-16 19:31                             ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-17 20:36                               ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-17 22:24                                 ` visual-region-mode? Drew Adams
2018-09-17 23:11                                   ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-18  0:11                                     ` visual-region-mode? Juri Linkov
2018-09-18 12:32                                     ` visual-region-mode? Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 19:22                                 ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-19  1:45                                   ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-19 19:22                                     ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-19 20:04                                       ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-20 18:14                                         ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-21 20:28                                           ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-24 17:42                                             ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-24 18:07                                               ` visual-region-mode? Yuri Khan
2018-09-29 11:18                                                 ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-10-03 13:13                                                   ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-10-04 20:20                                                     ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-26 22:00                                               ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-27 21:01                                                 ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-10-03 13:59                                                   ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-24 20:24                                             ` visual-region-mode? Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-26 18:12                                               ` visual-region-mode? Charles A. Roelli
2018-09-26 22:45                                               ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-09-27 17:26                                                 ` visual-region-mode? Alan Mackenzie
2018-10-03 15:43                                                   ` visual-region-mode? hw
2018-10-03 17:03                                                     ` visual-region-mode? Alan Mackenzie
     [not found]                                             ` <<m2ftxy3i79.fsf@aurox.ch>
2018-09-24 20:39                                               ` visual-region-mode? Drew Adams
2018-09-12 20:27                     ` visual-region-mode? Juri Linkov
2018-09-08 18:16           ` delete-selection-mode as default Dmitry Gutov
2018-09-09  7:42             ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-09-09 14:25               ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-07  9:40   ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Phil Sainty
2018-09-07 13:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 11:37       ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-08 14:04         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 15:35     ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 16:16       ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-07 19:01   ` tomas
2018-09-07 19:23     ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 20:28       ` tomas
2018-09-08 23:19         ` delete-selection-mode as default Juri Linkov
2018-09-09  8:02           ` tomas
2018-09-07 20:33     ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Noam Postavsky
2018-09-07 21:31       ` tomas
2018-09-10  8:01         ` delete-selection-mode as default Robert Pluim
2018-09-10  8:09           ` tomas
2018-09-09 13:45   ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-09 14:22     ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-09 15:12     ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 11:42     ` delete-selection-mode as default Filipp Gunbin
2018-09-09 20:39   ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Joost Kremers
2018-09-09 22:24     ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10  3:08       ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-10  3:17         ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10  5:15       ` Bingo
2018-09-10 13:34         ` delete-selection-mode as default Stefan Monnier
2018-09-10  8:46       ` hw
2018-09-10 18:16       ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-10 18:35         ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-10 19:19           ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-10 20:36         ` Drew Adams
2018-09-11 22:34           ` delete-selection-mode as default hw
2018-09-12  0:04             ` Drew Adams
2018-09-13  2:58               ` hw
2018-09-12 13:16             ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-12 13:41               ` Drew Adams
2018-09-12 14:53                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-12 15:51               ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-12 15:59                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-12 16:36                   ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-13  3:59               ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-09-13  4:16               ` hw
2018-09-13 17:46                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-13 20:32                   ` hw
2018-09-14 10:48                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-14 13:41                       ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-14 14:03                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-14 15:37                           ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-14 14:29                         ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-14 14:32                           ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-14 14:33                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-14 15:23                           ` Drew Adams
2018-09-14 18:49                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-15 21:20                             ` hw
2018-09-15 22:37                           ` hw
2018-09-16  0:22                             ` Drew Adams
2018-09-16  3:15                               ` hw
2018-09-16  3:34                                 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-16 13:48                                   ` hw
2018-09-16 14:14                                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-17 21:00                                       ` hw
2018-09-16 15:28                                     ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-16 16:30                                     ` Drew Adams
2018-09-16 16:59                                     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-09-16 18:20                                       ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-16 18:49                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-16 20:17                                         ` Drew Adams
2018-09-17 21:22                                       ` hw
2018-09-18 12:14                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 23:45                                           ` hw
2018-09-19  5:41                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-19 20:09                                               ` hw
     [not found]                                     ` <<831s9tidjc.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-09-16 18:04                                       ` Drew Adams
2018-09-16 18:17                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                                         ` <<83va75gvc8.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-09-16 20:14                                           ` Drew Adams
     [not found]                                       ` <<CAP_d_8VcFjkQQxzgv+XUheE4Q33vNgbuGpGwtv2-dOEBuK7OeQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                                         ` <<83tvmpgtwe.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-09-16 20:29                                           ` Drew Adams
2018-09-17  5:28                                             ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-16  8:06                                 ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-16 13:36                                   ` hw
2018-09-16 16:48                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-17 22:11                               ` hw
2018-09-17 22:44                                 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-17 23:30                                   ` hw
2018-09-18 12:31                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 13:14                                   ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-18 14:14                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 15:28                                       ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-18 15:37                                         ` Drew Adams
2018-09-18 16:49                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 16:46                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-20  1:46                                     ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-20  5:45                                       ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-19  2:26                                   ` hw
2018-09-19  6:38                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-19 20:36                                       ` hw
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2018-09-18 17:42                                             ` Drew Adams
2018-09-18 18:30                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 19:15                                                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-14 15:15                         ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-09-14 14:33                       ` Drew Adams
2018-09-15 21:59                         ` hw
2018-09-15 20:31                       ` hw
2018-09-11 23:30           ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-12  0:13             ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10  7:05     ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 13:41       ` delete-selection-mode as default Stefan Monnier
2018-09-10 14:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 14:19           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-10 14:24         ` Drew Adams
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2018-09-10 14:30           ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 14:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 16:09             ` Yuri Khan
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2018-09-10 15:25               ` Drew Adams
2018-09-11  4:22       ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Richard Stallman
2018-09-11  7:48         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-12  0:33           ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-11  8:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-12  0:33           ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-12 14:07             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-11 12:36         ` delete-selection-mode as default Stefan Monnier
2018-09-11 23:09           ` hw
2018-09-12  0:33           ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-12 13:23             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-13  3:33               ` Richard Stallman
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2018-09-14 20:57                               ` Drew Adams
2018-09-15  7:50                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-15 10:20                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-15 10:56                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-15 19:44                                     ` Ergus
2018-09-15 20:01                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-16  0:29                                         ` Ergus
2018-09-16 16:55                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-16 10:52                                       ` Alan Mackenzie
     [not found]                                         ` <3D72B095-01EC-4E7D-90F9-5691AEFE16DC@aol.com>
2018-09-17  2:17                                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-17  5:46                                             ` Elias Mårtenson
2018-09-17 18:37                                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-09-17 19:57                                               ` hw
2018-09-17 22:56                                                 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-15 15:02                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-15 15:27                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-15 18:30                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-15 20:04                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-16  3:14                                     ` Richard Stallman
     [not found]                                 ` <<83zhwji4hx.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-09-17  0:55                                   ` Drew Adams
2018-10-03  0:22                                     ` Richard Stallman
2018-10-03 17:38                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08  5:13 ` delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Richard Stallman
2018-09-08 14:54   ` Drew Adams
2018-09-09  1:23     ` Ergus
2018-09-08 17:25   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-09-08 18:08   ` delete-selection-mode as default Stefan Monnier
2018-09-09  6:08     ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-09  7:56       ` Yuri Khan
2018-09-09 14:33       ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10  5:47         ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-09-08  3:46 delete-selection-mode as default (WAS: Some developement questions) Bingo
2018-09-08 15:03 ` delete-selection-mode as default hw
2018-09-08 16:15   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 23:27     ` hw
2018-09-09  1:15       ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-09  3:33         ` Drew Adams
2018-09-09 17:41         ` hw
2018-09-08 16:31   ` Bingo
2018-09-10  2:33     ` hw

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