From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:13:47 -0400 Message-ID: <87fx3r10ec.fsf@stupidchicken.com> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269361042 14411 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2010 16:17:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 17:17:11 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 1Nu6n0-0003T4-Jr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:17:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52508 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nu6mz-0005dt-Ul for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nu6jr-0003UH-5R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:13:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34983 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nu6jp-0003TF-GZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:13:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nu6jm-0000Vs-HS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:13:53 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po25.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.119]:55218) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nu6jm-0000VU-FC; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:13:50 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014175.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.175]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po25.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o2NGDmwc005588 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:13:48 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5F948C011; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:13:47 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <874ok7bhse.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:48:01 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.94 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/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:122557 Archived-At: 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?