From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal for DEL to delete the active region Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 08:04:20 +0200 Organization: ThierryVolpiatto Message-ID: <87mxwialgb.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: <87iq78uwyd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272780503 3555 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2010 06:08:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 06:08:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 02 08:08:22 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1O8SLh-0001H3-O0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 May 2010 08:08:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O8SLh-0004U8-5f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 May 2010 02:08:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O8SLb-0004U1-6p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2010 02:08:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59546 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O8SLZ-0004Tj-PC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2010 02:08:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O8SLX-0005Sh-MD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2010 02:08:09 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49939) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O8SLU-0005SI-BS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2010 02:08:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O8SLR-00015Q-Fc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2010 08:08:01 +0200 Original-Received: from 234.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.234]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 May 2010 08:08:01 +0200 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 234.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 May 2010 08:08:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 51 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 234.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEUHBARgJRFPS0WbMBTC TSG/uJs0yyVHAAAACXBIWXMAAAsSAAALEgHS3X78AAAACXZwQWcAAAAwAAAAMADO7oxXAAABpUlE QVQ4y3VTQXKDMAyUnD7AwvQOhtxj5N4LFh9ow/+/UtlpM0BczWSS0Wola7UBeEb3+3kJ/5p9ZLz3 UI0n0J0Y4K/lh1nG24FhlJOR2LdSKtpV5gfi/Zd+NdaJBbB4D5N0JnfUIVp6obZURkJwS2a8b9uX AkgxA5gCEcknAH1s2z0DPooWmjGKcJR+HNZt+9bm0GtGRycRuZGs98Ffr02vABWGopIAhmXmxnQN BwBXZjgFLHRoqbfeYxCLWqsjLyKhbEHW+A5nEs699Q2O80ALrgHTmUTy6P0MnKyKQpKHpoNWokxs F0D5VegvWmEozyE6nuMiS98mWzlUQ9bW8qYfqOaFtzWlYCqGeIs6HEyl08jkrxUG9MF5ipXpOOpd ZMoXPPVSLWJiiwNNB+eRSyxJZmQKcacikgucnCRiHuJOLmyYJRDPwOqAvY4pA+Wy+VS8G26BAsdb Ph2Hw7ORy/H0IOG0TnaM8Cp0XrFYyU0v2z8AqkifPVbLZ0qo/gsRg60C7p+8Ov9jrUIxFde+jnAq X42hyp/c+ZcnVyUYBarrqZt3+R8450png3cWKgAAACV0RVh0ZGF0ZTpjcmVhdGUAMjAwOC0wNS0z MVQyMjoxNDoyMiswMjowMK3VBDcAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6bW9kaWZ5ADIwMDctMTAtMjhUMTc6MDg6 NDgrMDE6MDDLdIcLAAAAEXRFWHRqcGVnOmNvbG9yc3BhY2UAMix1VZ8AAAAgdEVYdGpwZWc6c2Ft cGxpbmctZmFjdG9yADJ4MiwxeDEsMXgxSfqmtAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xd9W43+N0aJjqhE8O21FiTs1niU= 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:124411 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Here is a proposal for DEL to delete the region when transient-mark-mode >> is enabled. DEL already does this in delete-selection-mode; the idea >> here is to move this behavior into transient-mark-mode proper. > > The proposal has the property of being straightforward. I like that. > >> + (defcustom delete-backward-char-delete-region t > > But this doesn't seem right: we're not going to have one such variable > for delete-backward-char, delete-char, delete-backward-char-untabify, > and the handful of other commands that > > grep "'delete-selection 'supersede" lisp/**/*.el > > indicate will want a similar treatment. > >> + (defun delete-backward-char (n killflag) > [...] >> + (interactive "p\nP") >> + (unless (integerp n) >> + (signal 'wrong-type-argument (list 'integerp n))) >> + (cond ((and (use-region-p) >> + delete-backward-char-delete-region >> + (= n 1)) > > the other problem here is that this change also affects calls from Lisp > rather than only interactive calls. > > > Stefan > > > PS: We will want to remove mouse-region-delete-keys and related code > ASAP since it is at the root of various known bugs (mostly due to the > fact that it delays the end of the mouse-selection commands to the > beginning of the next command, so post-command-hooks don't get run at > the expected time). Why instead not using C-d to delete region with simple thing like that: (defun tv-delete-char (arg beg end) (interactive "p\nr") (if (region-active-p) (delete-region beg end) (delete-char arg))) -- Thierry Volpiatto Gpg key: http://pgp.mit.edu/