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: delete-selection-mode Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:32:45 +0200 Message-ID: <85d4okuxsy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <004a01c8a1a0$7215cdd0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <878wz9btq8.fsf@jurta.org> <85fxthy4qp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87hcdxz9zr.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <87ve2cfk9x.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208720074 2915 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2008 19:34:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:34:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Chong Yidong , rms@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 20 21:35:08 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 4.50) id 1JnfJZ-0002mD-Bg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:35:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnfIu-0001UA-4r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:34:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JnfHq-0000eP-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JnfHp-0000cw-40 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnfHo-0000cp-KF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:33:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-12.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.52]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JnfHX-000648-Ao; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:32:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-06-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.18]) by mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 866734C300; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:32:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (mail-in-12.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.52]) by mail-in-06-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DED95C2C5; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:32:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-002-239.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.2.239]) by mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7DC8C46A; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:32:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 8EDA91C39587; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:32:45 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:25:53 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6850/Sun Apr 20 19:05:45 2008 on mail-in-12.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:95535 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > PS: We have had another limited form of delete-selection-mode enabled > by default for a long time know, in the form of > `mouse-region-delete-keys'. The code used to implement this feature > is quite problematic, tho, and I'd be happy if someone could use a > more robust solution (or we could just remove that feature, which I > always found to be unconvincing: people who like it will probably > prefer to enable delete-selection-mode anyway). Not me: I use this from time to time, but delete-selection-mode is too intrusive for me. Given that just right clicking twice will achieve the same thing, my normal use case is when the mouse already went somewhere else and/or I have returned back to the keyboard before deciding I want to delete the marked stuff after all. So it is not a feature I'd miss a whole lot. But I do use it occasionally, and I abhor delete-selection-mode. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum