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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next prev parent 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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