From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:59:30 +0200 Message-ID: <858xa56rm5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <86fy4dzdzd.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182978084 31286 80.91.229.10 (27 Jun 2007 21:01:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , emacs-devel To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 27 23:01:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I3edY-0007JN-Kq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:01:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I3ec1-0008F8-2X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:59:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I3ebx-0008Ez-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:59:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I3ebv-0008Eg-76 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:59:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I3ebu-0008Ed-VX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:59:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.49]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I3ebu-00022o-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-11-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.28]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D95302955; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:59:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEF7F34709A; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:59:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-004-053.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.4.53]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9A219B322; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:59:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 418C81D03440; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:59:30 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Wed\, 27 Jun 2007 20\:43\:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.90.3/3542/Wed Jun 27 18:55:00 2007 on mail-in-01.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:73943 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On 6/27/07, Andreas Schwab wrote: > >> Please read the history. This feature has been added 15 years ago. > > Emacs is big. I didn't know it. I don't use that feature (and now that > I know it, I still don't think I'll ever use it). What's the problem > with asking? > >> Would you also forbid enabling auto-fill-mode or abbrev-mode in a >> read-only buffer? > > Perhaps. If they cause confusion. I don't see what confusion is caused by being able to switch from insert-mode to overwrite-mode and back in a readonly buffer. Would you also prohibit switching _off_ overwrite-mode? If yes, why? If no, why? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum