From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another Emacs incompatibilty
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 09:45:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imdfewcn.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2a7d658b-972c-46e0-b893-af8c236da401@default
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> Almost by coincidence, I just discovered `delete-selection-mode', which
>> does the same thing. I also don't understand the utility of this, but
>> apparently it's useful enough to have been implemented twice! Neither
>> should be active by default, though.
>
> Some of us think that `delete-selection-mode'
> should be enabled by default - and that this
> is long overdue.
>
> FYI, a similar debate took place for
> `transient-mark-mode'. It took _decades_ to
> finally get that turned on by default.
>
> Maybe you can't imagine t-m-mode being off by
> default. Try it. ;-) There are some good
> arguments for that behavior, as there are
> against it.
I was mostly posting to point out possible clues to OP's problem, not to
disparage `d-s-m', et al! I can see why people might want it, especially
if they're also using a lot of other software. Personally I feel that it
obscures an "Emacs approach" to editing that, when fully embraced, is
much more powerful (I also disable `transient-mark-mode'), but I would
have no interest in making that decision for other people, one way or
the other.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-18 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-16 20:57 Another Emacs incompatibilty Torbjörn Granlund
2020-08-16 21:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-16 23:02 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 8:12 ` On the rate of change [was: Another Emacs incompatibilty] tomas
2020-08-17 14:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 15:20 ` tomas
2020-08-17 17:44 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 15:14 ` Another Emacs incompatibilty Torbjörn Granlund
2020-08-17 15:54 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-17 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-17 20:16 ` Torbjörn Granlund
2020-08-17 20:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-17 21:22 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 22:00 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 22:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-17 23:00 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-18 0:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-18 4:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-18 4:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-18 5:27 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-18 5:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-23 20:10 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-24 6:43 ` Alan Davis
2020-08-24 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-24 23:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-24 14:31 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-24 23:24 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-25 0:53 ` Alan Davis
2020-08-25 4:09 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-25 4:14 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-25 4:30 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-25 5:04 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-25 5:46 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-25 6:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-25 5:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-24 15:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-24 23:14 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-18 15:47 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-18 16:45 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-08-18 16:52 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-18 17:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-18 17:10 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 16:31 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 16:49 ` Perry Smith
2020-08-17 16:54 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-17 17:28 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-17 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-17 17:16 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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