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From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
To: 18246@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18246: enriched-encode: should set inhibit-point-motion-hooks, too
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:14:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2c3q6pq.fsf@violet.siamics.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1XHhMq-0006D4-Ux@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:50:04 -0400")

>>>>> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

[…]

 > Another option would be to use text that is read-only but not
 > intangible.  Maybe users won't be disturbed by being able to move
 > point to the middle of fixed text in the form.

	For one thing, I actually consider the ability to move point to
	the middle of virtually /any/ text, including “fixed,” in Emacs
	(it’s not just forms, – think of tmm-menubar, for instance, or
	minibuffer prompts) to be a considerable /advantage./  And it
	gets especially useful when, say, writing a guide, – copying
	text from menus, forms, etc. is not nearly as easy in the
	majority of the modern (non-tty) software.

	(That being said, I believe it’s easier to point the reader to
	M-x foo-do-something than to Menu Bar → Foo → Do Something,
	so I’d say that menus are not as important to Emacs as they are
	to some other software, anyway.)

 > I feel that none of these offers behavior that is really right and
 > smooth for a form.  I think this is an area for improvement in Emacs.

	I’m all for improvements to Emacs.  In the case of ‘intangible’,
	however, – I’m out of ideas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-14 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-11 12:09 bug#18246: enriched-encode: should set inhibit-point-motion-hooks, too Ivan Shmakov
2014-08-11 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-11 18:57   ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-08-12  3:15   ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-12 14:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-13  3:59       ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-13 15:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-13 22:50           ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-14 18:14             ` Ivan Shmakov [this message]
2014-08-14 18:26               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-14 19:25                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-12 14:53     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-14  8:31   ` Ivan Shmakov

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