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: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:40:33 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87d3yv7zzy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <22603146-A346-4FC2-8D74-5D6047865C3A@mit.edu> <87r5nf8s7q.fsf@siart.de> <87pr2ygbii.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87tys9180s.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ocih158i.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <874ok7bhse.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87fx3r10ec.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269362474 20085 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2010 16:41:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:41:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 17:41:09 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nu7AC-0000Am-UT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:41:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50661 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nu7AB-0003vx-H2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:41:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nu79u-0003mI-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39244 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nu79s-0003lC-Ri for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:40:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nu79r-0005M3-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:40:48 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nu79q-0005Li-NU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:40:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nu79o-0008KD-AR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:40:44 +0100 Original-Received: from p5b2c2720.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.44.39.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:40:44 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p5b2c2720.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:40:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b2c2720.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/NSVbfQ3i+GZ11VBLYjok/gf1IE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:122560 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> I was proposing folding the semantics of shift-select and mouse-select. >> You think that would imply making shift-select worse, but we could >> probably achieve it by making mouse-select better instead. > > mouse-select and shift-select semantics are already unified to a large > extent. Try it: drag a region of text with the mouse, then extend the > region with the shift-arrow keys. Internally, both work by setting the > value of `transient-mark-mode' to `only'. > > Do you have a specific suggestion for improvement? mouse-region-delete-keys -- David Kastrup