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: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:56:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ocitw2dl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <201003130001.o2D01FFQ003489@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87vdd1yqe4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87eijjzrkd.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <20100317143519.GB4381@muc.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269014339 7992 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2010 15:58:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:58:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, dann@ics.uci.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, acm@muc.de To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 19 16:58:53 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 1Nseb4-00018U-MP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:58:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39413 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nseaj-0006Qw-Q8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:58:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NseZ2-0005vx-5h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:56:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49593 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NseZ1-0005vg-Kq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:56:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NseZ0-00047s-FP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:56:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:44279) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NseYv-000470-US for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:56:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NseYg-0002S4-27; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:56:22 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lennart Borgman on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:41:24 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:122285 Archived-At: > It would be useful to see precisely what the beginners said who > complained about the current defaults.  What were their use cases? I think they simple want the behaviour that they are used to from editing taks in other application. I am sure that is true, but the question is a specific one. Precisely which use cases are these people concerned about?