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: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:32:34 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87y6hq39rk.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> References: <87ocitw2dl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <201003130001.o2D01FFQ003489@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87vdd1yqe4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87eijjzrkd.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <8BDB38B3CCBC481CB014CB3DA9FA1948@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268862500 4363 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2010 21:48:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:48:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Chong Yidong' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 17 22:48:15 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 1Ns166-0003FZ-Jo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:48:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43568 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns166-0002mE-5T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns15z-0002kt-Ve for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56288 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns15x-0002is-JB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ns15v-0005tm-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:05 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out2.starman.ee ([85.253.0.4]:49306 helo=mx2.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ns15v-0005tO-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:48:03 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx2.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (85.253.49.181.cable.starman.ee [85.253.49.181]) by mx2.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA12B3F40BC; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:47:55 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: <8BDB38B3CCBC481CB014CB3DA9FA1948@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:51:10 -0700") 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:122113 Archived-At: >> Is that reason enough to enable delete-selection-mode by default? > > I vote yes. Yes, of course. > > But we've been around this block a few times before. Here we go, round and > round. Folks will chime in again about cua-mode, cua-selection-mode, > pc-selection-mode, transient-mark-mode,... The antimouse will raise its medusa > head again... Round and round and round we go... Are we having fun yet? Please note that actually pc-selection-mode was already enabled by default in 23.1 (shift-arrow keys with transient-mark-mode). So now we have a weird state with enabled pc-selection-mode and disabled delete-selection-mode. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/