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: AW: delete-selection-mode Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:38:29 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? 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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:122251 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: >> > More importantly, it's consistent with the existing semantics of >> > transient mark mode. Many Emacs commands act on the region >> > when it's active, and it seems natural for DEL to be one of >> > these commands. >> > >> > By contrast, it's not clear to me that self-inserting >> > characters ought to "act on the region" in the sense of >> > replacing its contents. >> >> As I understand from counter-arguments, opponents agree with >> self-inserting characters replacing the region, but only when >> the region is activated explicitly, and not by side-effects of >> setting the mark or exchanging the mark and point. > > Not this "opponent". I agree with self-inserting characters replacing > the active region _always_, no matter how it was activated. That's the > point of "active". > And I hold that the region should be activated simply by setting the > mark or exchanging the mark and point. With delete-selection-mode, commands like push-mark and pop-mark get side effects that tend to destroy text every time. -- David Kastrup