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 09:18:41 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87ocim2gbi.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> 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 1268902448 10536 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2010 08:54:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:54:08 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 18 09:54:05 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 1NsBUS-0007va-H2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:54:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52193 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsBUS-00086M-3L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NsBCB-0000GH-60 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47728 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NsBC7-0000FJ-SQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsBC4-0004I2-S5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49475) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsBC4-0004Hy-MG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsBC3-0000rq-9G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:35:03 +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 09:35:03 +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 09:35:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 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:eo2IRxPuL9Xp4+ENOwZvwkHJwrA= 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:122148 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Someone (Alan) wrote: > > > You have misconstrued Richard's post.  He went on to say that what is > > useful for newcomers isn't necessarily what they expect or "want". > > There's thus no indication there that he would support the rest of your > > argument. > > He is right about what I said, as a general point. > Whether it is relevant to this issue, I am not sure. > > If delete-selection-mode affects only what DEL does after a > mouse-selection, It doesn't. mouse-region-delete-keys is already set in a manner that DEL deletes a mouse-selected region. delete-selection-mode extends this behavior also to regions selected in other ways, and deletes the contents of the active region also when you type self-inserting characters. What you think people are asking for here is already the default. delete-selection-mode does quite more. -- David Kastrup