From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:47:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <004a01c8a1a0$7215cdd0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <878wz9btq8.fsf@jurta.org> <85fxthy4qp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87hcdxz9zr.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <480C112F.1030407@emf.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208807315 23848 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2008 19:48:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:48:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thomas Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 21:49:06 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 4.50) id 1Jo20B-0003Ad-6C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:48:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jo1zK-0000TY-Jz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jo1z8-0000Oz-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:47:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jo1z3-0000Mp-RZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:47:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jo1z3-0000Mi-Ix for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:47:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jo1z2-0003L6-NP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:47:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jo1z0-0000wf-6r; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:47:22 -0400 In-reply-to: <480C112F.1030407@emf.net> (message from Thomas Lord on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:59:43 -0700) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:95684 Archived-At: > Here's a possible idea: enable delete-selection-mode by default > but only after shift-selection and mouse-selection. > A useful "quasi-quantization" to consider is how many bits of state a user must keep in mind to accurately predict the dynamically variable behavior of self-insert-command. It's not a real factor for this issue, because the two cases are quite distinct already.