From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
7260@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:47:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjzyp6u3.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3wrpae3ne.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:52:05 +0200")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> I wasn't present when the discussion to make `C-x C-x' do these things
> took place, but it seems like the current behaviour conflates to rather
> different actions -- exchange-point-and-mark, and activate-region. How
> about just decoupling them altogether, and let `C-x C-x' revert to
> (only) doing what it's always done, and add `C-x C-a' for
> `activate-region'?
How about not doing that?
I don't disagree that having a dedicated key might be more
logical/elegant/whatever, but user interfaces, after all, are more about
what's convenient and familiar than what's the most minimal.
Saying "(only) doing what it's always done" is simply _wrong_ at this
point, because C-x C-x has had its current functionality for quite a
while -- if I interpret what I see in git correctly, at least since 1993!
-Miles
--
Conservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a
Liberal, who wants to replace them with new ones.
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2010-10-21 17:21 ` bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-21 18:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-21 18:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-21 18:45 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-21 18:45 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-22 12:22 ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-22 12:22 ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-22 13:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-22 15:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-22 15:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-22 15:49 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-22 15:49 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-22 16:45 ` David Kastrup
2010-10-22 15:47 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2010-10-22 16:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-21 12:53 ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-22 16:44 ` David Kastrup
2012-02-19 6:09 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-22 16:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-22 16:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-22 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-22 18:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-22 18:55 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-10-22 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-23 4:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-23 7:05 ` David Kastrup
2010-10-23 12:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-22 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-22 16:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-22 16:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-22 15:47 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-23 7:46 ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-23 7:46 ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-23 7:46 ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-23 7:46 ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-23 9:38 ` Jan Djärv
2010-10-23 9:38 ` Jan Djärv
2010-10-23 17:26 ` James Cloos
2010-10-23 17:54 ` James Cloos
2010-10-24 7:04 ` David Kastrup
2010-10-23 17:54 ` James Cloos
2010-10-23 17:26 ` James Cloos
2010-10-24 16:30 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-24 16:30 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-25 12:08 ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-25 12:08 ` Richard Stallman
2010-10-23 11:18 ` Bastien
2010-10-23 11:18 ` Bastien
2010-10-23 14:21 ` David Kastrup
2010-10-23 16:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-23 16:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-22 13:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-22 14:31 ` Helmut Eller
2010-10-22 15:17 ` Jason Rumney
2010-10-22 17:06 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-10-23 4:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-21 19:39 ` Chong Yidong
[not found] ` <mailman.8.1287690197.32629.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-21 20:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-21 20:16 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-21 20:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-21 20:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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