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: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:08:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <004a01c8a1a0$7215cdd0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <200804201931.m3KJVO4X008875@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <858wz8ux2w.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <480BA779.2080507@gmail.com> <853apguv0s.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <480BAD5C.4090204@gmail.com> <85prskte96.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <480BB8C0.4020303@gmail.com> <85abjnu5ss.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <480C31B9.6060900@gmail.com> <480CC3AD.1050403@gmail.com> <85mynnxhuh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <480CD2D1.1020003@gmail.com> <878wz7xdgb.fsf@gmail.com> <85bq43xcq9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <480CF177.7080904@gnu.org> <480D9D88.9080800@gnu.org> <86zlrmnv2f.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208894977 20668 80.91.229.12 (22 Apr 2008 20:09:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:09:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: paul.r.ml@gmail.com, cyd@stupidchicken.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, ams@gnu.org, dann@ics.uci.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jasonr@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 22 22:10:10 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 1JoOo8-0006jV-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:09:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JoOnS-0005Xs-Hb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:08:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JoOmk-00052I-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:08:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JoOmh-00050Y-E5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:08:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JoOmh-00050Q-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:08:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JoOmg-0005lY-Vg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:08:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JoOmg-0001Ub-F1; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:08:10 -0400 In-reply-to: <86zlrmnv2f.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:38:16 +0200) 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:95797 Archived-At: Setting the region with the mouse has been supported since Emacs 19 at least. That's pretty traditional in my book. At least for part of that time we had a feature analogous to delsel mode for that particular kind of selection.