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: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:34:07 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87fx3xzokg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87ocitw2dl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <201003130001.o2D01FFQ003489@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87vdd1yqe4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87eijjzrkd.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <20100317143519.GB4381@muc.de> <87vdcui6oh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20100318101223.GB2704@muc.de> <87ocil3edy.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268923064 28038 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2010 14:37:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:37:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 18 15:37:40 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 1NsGqx-0005fK-Hr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:37:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44890 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsGqw-0004YJ-RM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:37:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NsGnp-0001bz-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:34:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40037 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsGno-0001aJ-4P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:34:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsGnm-00058m-4A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:34:24 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:34094) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsGnl-00058S-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:34:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsGnk-0003yU-F1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:34:20 +0100 Original-Received: from p5b2c2262.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.44.34.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:34:20 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p5b2c2262.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:34:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b2c2262.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$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oCYwtRFLnX7oJfWe84B9ieDhs3M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122165 Archived-At: Jason Rumney writes: > Alan Mackenzie writes: > > >> My view is that we should never make something default in Emacs if >> it's likely to provoke the angry reaction "How do I disable this >> *!£$ing thing?". delete-select-mode falls into this latter category. >> So does transient-mark-mode. > > So do fringes, toolbars, menus, scrollbars, the splash screen, syntax > highlighting and almost every other change we've made to Emacs over > the years. None of them destroy your text given the same keystrokes. -- David Kastrup