From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen'" <lmi@gnus.org>, <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: 'Emacs-Devel devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, 7260@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#7260: 24.0.50; DEL screwed up
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:45:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A491447AE2F940C4A8A962F87022827B@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ocanwjf1.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Today I typed DEL after yanking some text and typing C-x
> > C-x to go to the beginning of it. DEL surprised me by
> > deleting the region.
>
> I think most people now agree that `C-x C-x' shouldn't activate the
> region when transient-mark-mode is switched on, but nobody
> has actually altered that function to stop doing this.
>
> If nobody objects, I'll make that change later tonight.
Huh??????
_Nothing_ has been decided in this regard.
Refer to the giant thread "C-d deleting region considered harmful". See in
particular the sub/derived threads "Should C-x C-x activate the region?" and
"C-x C-x".
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-09/msg00965.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-09/msg01011.html
There was _lots_ of discussion about this, but no conclusion about just what
should be done.
The last mail I see on this topic was Richard's of 2010/09/22.
He argued that a poll should be taken.
The last line of the thread is Richard's:
"If we just speculate about this, we might be very wrong."
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-09/msg01110.html
Please do _not_ just "make that change later tonight".
(You certainly should not make changes like that based only on someone filing a
bug to report an annoyance.)
(FWIW, I was the first in the thread to suggest that we might consider changing
`C-x C-x' so that it does not activate the region. So I am not against such a
change, in principle. But just "making that change later tonight" is truly not
kosher/halal.)
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[not found] <mailman.4.1287666765.3734.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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 [this message]
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 15:49 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-22 15:49 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-22 16:45 ` David Kastrup
2010-10-22 15:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-22 15:47 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-22 15:47 ` Miles Bader
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 16:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-22 16:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-22 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
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 16:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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 7:46 ` Richard Stallman
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
2010-10-23 11:18 ` Bastien
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
2010-10-22 12:22 ` Richard Stallman
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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