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: FW: commands to select things of different kinds Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:22:22 +0200 Message-ID: <85fxthy4qp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <004a01c8a1a0$7215cdd0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <878wz9btq8.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208636567 19838 80.91.229.12 (19 Apr 2008 20:22:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:22:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , Drew Adams , Emacs-Devel To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 19 22:23:20 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 1JnJag-0004Jp-1m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:23:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnJa0-0000oy-PT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JnJZw-0000oP-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:22:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JnJZu-0000nf-PQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:22:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnJZt-0000nc-PT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:22:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.53]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JnJZt-0006dG-Fp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:22:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.14]) by mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB761E4FD5; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:22:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (mail-in-14.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.54]) by mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4E1113878; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:22:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-017-100.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.17.100]) by mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F63618783D; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:22:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id D98521C452D2; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:22:22 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <878wz9btq8.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:11:11 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6834/Fri Apr 18 23:09:50 2008 on mail-in-14.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:95471 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: >> I use C-M-SPC *very* often, typically just before C-y (together with >> a variant of delete-selection-mode). > > BTW, since now shift-selection is available by default, I think we should > enable delete-selection-mode, because otherwise it is very confusing > for users coming from other programs to discover the weird behavior > of transient-mark-mode when delete-selection-mode is disabled. No. I am already getting surprise region activations with the current settings. Getting it erased by surprise is not what I consider fun. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum