From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:35:50 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87iq8t9mhl.fsf@mail.jurta.org> 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> <87fx3xzokg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87eijhic9f.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87d3z1wbgb.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 1268959385 2316 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2010 00:43:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:43:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 19 01:42:57 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 1NsQIj-00055o-3G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:42:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsQIi-0008P3-Jy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:42:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NsQHZ-0007Gu-6j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:41:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47337 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsQHX-0007ET-Kb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsQHV-0008Hs-5V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:41:43 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out2.starman.ee ([85.253.0.4]:60281 helo=mx2.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsQHN-0008GT-3x; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:41:34 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx2.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.94.132.cable.starman.ee [82.131.94.132]) by mx2.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 969E63F40BE; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:41:26 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: <87d3z1wbgb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:45:40 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:122234 Archived-At: >>>> 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. >> >> You can accidentally type C-w and destroy your text. > > C-y undoes the damage even in buffers without undo history. I meant the cases when deletion went unnoticed. With the active region this is less likely, because you have a clear visual indication when the region is active. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/